If I told you that comparing yourself to others is a dishonor to the Creator –the Most High Yah (God) – would you continue to allow yourself to do it – unrestrained, without casting down those thoughts? I hope that the answer to the question is a resounding no from each one who reads this post.  The Most High has done so much even in nature to assure you that you were his intention – his divinely unique design. Even your DNA has never existed prior to your birth and will cease to ever be recreated once your spirit has left your body. What’s even more profound is that the word tells us that you are made in the image of Yah (God) (Genesis 1:27). In addition to the generally accepted biblical exegesis on this scripture – that Yah (God) is a spirit and that in likeness we too are individual (creative speaking) spirits – it also suggests that there are attributes about yourself that you may have not yet learned to appreciate that may very well be aspects of himself that He deems as good. Yet, society has conditioned us to do just that – to covet that which is inimitably someone else’s. As a result, many compare themselves to and go to great lengths to make themselves into the many images that are set forth and created by man. I submit to you, that this does not please the Father. A few passages in the book of Psalms may help you to see just how perfect in Him you already are.

Psalms 139 verse 14 – 18 says:

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect, and in thy book all my members were written which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them.

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O Yah how great is the sum of them!

If I should count them they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

There are several words that I would like to draw your attention to – words that will drive home my point, and hopefully help to shut the lies of the enemy down for good as it relates to who you are.

The word wonderfully in verse 14 is translated from the Greek word “palah:”

Palah (6395): To be separated or distinct; singular (namely in bodily stature etc.) (www.biblehub.com)

The word for substance in verse 17 is “Otsem:”

Otsem (6108): my frame, bones, might, strength (www.biblehub.com)

The word for substance in verse 17 is not used the same in verse 18. In verse 18 the word for “substance” is a “galemi.” It is a Greek word that is derived from the root word “Golem.”

Golem (1564): An embryo, and unformed substance (www.biblehub.om)

His word is telling you that you are distinct in how you are made, right down to your bones, your frame and the strength of your body. When you were just an embryo, not yet fully developed in the womb, you were continuing to grow according to His predetermined design for you!

This truth is mirrored by a witness in Jeremiah 1:5

“Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee…” (www.biblehub.com)

Often times we read passages like the ones in Psalms 139 and are emotionally moved with the very thought of such love being poured out upon ourselves – selves that we mentally disqualify in light of all of the imperfections that we have noted about our person. We intake with our eyes the standard of fashion and beauty that the media has set forth, and our unguarded ears deposit within our hearts containers in the form of words that we interpret as being the measure of greatness that we are to aspire to meet. It is not possible to have any lasting success or true happiness living counter to our authentic selves, and there are only three possible outcomes that come from comparing ourselves to others:

An over-inflated opinion of one’s self when we feel that we have risen above another in the area compared,

a false sense of accomplishment based on a standard other than that which Yah (God) has set for us by His perfect will and purpose for our own (individual) lives,

and having a well-developed negative self-image when we fall below that which we have erroneously likened ourselves to.

We are bombarded with ideas about whom the world says that we should be every single day. Big dollars are spent on add campaigns to help you to believe what it is they are selling at the moment. My hope is that you will immediately cast down every contrary thought that exalt itself against the knowledge of Yah (God) (2 Cor. 10:5) – the knowledge that you have now been reminded of. The knowledge of knowing that, on this earth, absolutely nothing compares to you.