The Measuring Cup

The measuring cup...we all know what it is.  "I wish I were as pretty as she is", "I don't have as much money as he does", the list goes on and on.  What do I have to say about this?  I ask what measuring cup are you using?
If you are using this world's measuring up, your focus is most likely on: appearance, money, material things.  People that constantly try to be like another person according to these standards are usually miserable.  Why should we try to be as pretty as someone else when God made each and every one of us in His image.  Why should we try to obtain as much money and material things in life when all that really matters is what we obtain in eternity?  We cannot keep trying to get all the money and things we can get and expect to be happy.  It just won't happen.
When you use God's measuring cup, you find that you don't have to be the prettiest (or handsomest) person in the world, you don't have a big, overwhelming desire to get more and more money, and you find yourself wanting to obtain the eternal things instead of the earthly ones.
We cannot compare ourselves to this world, nor to the people in it.  If you say you're not pretty enough, who are you comparing yourself to?  If you don't have enough money, what amount are comparing your income to?  Why are you trying to compare yourself and your life, when God has made you in his image, and He died to give you the most important thing on earth: Redemption.
If you find that you've been comparing yourself to other people and their lives, take a moment to think.  God loves YOU for who YOU are, and He doesn't want to be anyone else or live anyone else's life.

2 Corinthians 10:12
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
Proverbs 8:11
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.