It's all about HIM

I have the problem of comparing myself to other people...just going to start off being up front and honest. I do. Like most people, I have the things that I think are good about myself...but then there are just those times when i think about how I can't manage to keep up with so and so. Which leads me to the verse--

"He must become greater; I must become less." [John 3:30]

I always seem to come back to this verse when I start to make comparisons between myself and someone else who I wish certain things about me were like them.
It's not about me anyway.
I'm just a vessel of the Holy Spirit. That's all. Why should I try to worry about doing certain things to glorify myself? Not that I'm putting down bettering yourself at all because that's a great thing to do, but when it's done for attention, then it's wrong.
Lauren Candice Rudd. Her life should not be about her. It should be about Jesus Christ who she lives for. She shouldn't care what others think because all that is whatever.
Therefore, worries of being as good as/better than so and so should not even be present, if you get what im saying.

It all seems to tie back into one thing. Keeping God first.
There's no way that the Lord will become greater than you in your life, and the focus will be off of yourself if your eyes are on other things besides HIM. When He comes first the bad parts of you as a human will begin to fade...and He will be able to come through.

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me." [Exodus 20:3]

We've all heard the: even if you don't consider what you're doing a "god" at all...if it comes before God, it is a god before Him, lesson.
But it's true. Christianity isn't a part time show that you do on the side on Sunday and then go back to school on Monday and put whatever you feel like before Him. I see that too terribly often, and it's not okay.
Your friends will let you down, your boyfriend will let you down...they're only human, they can't fill the void. Your possessions, or your addictions, they for sure can't fill the void, and it will all turn out to be a big let down unless the foundation of your life is Jesus Christ--the solid rock.
All the encouraging Bible verses like: "I can do all things through Christ" and "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart"...all those require faith.
If you are a part time Christian, your faith can't be that strong. Faith comes with devotion and trust. Peter, a disciple of Jesus even doubted Him while physically seeing Jesus and the miracles He performed. How can we, those who can't see him, expect to have faith that we can do all things through Him if we don't fully give our hearts up?
Like, if you talked to this random guy once a week for 5 minutes, you're missing a whole part of him. You don't know him, and you sure wouldn't trust tell him a huge secret and expect him to keep it, or trust him with your life.
Same with Jesus. You have to know Him, really know Him to understand how real He is. To comprehend that He can be your best friend even if you can't see Him. To trust that all those Bible verses that you can achieve the impossible through Him.
By YOURSELF, 9 times out of 10 you won't reach the goals and dreams that you set and reach for. But GOD makes the improbable, possible.

So, don't pull a Peter on God. Trust that He can help you walk on water if you put Him first, and take the focus off of your own self.

sorry all that was a little random haha...love much : )