LifeLink Devotions for Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Let’s continue with our focus on the chains of comparison that have so many of us bound up. Let me draw some principles from Isaiah chapter 46 and other passages of Scripture that might help us be set free.

In Isaiah 46:5 we read, “To whom will you compare me or count me equal? To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?”

Here is what God says about Himself:

• I am God, and there is no other
• I am God, and there is none like me
• I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come
• I say: My purpose will stand
• I will do all that I please
• What I have said, that will I bring about
• What I have planned, that will I do

After you have allowed those truths to sink in, you may still be asking how that solves the comparison game. Here’s how:

1. The God who is incomparable has lavished His love on us and declared us to be His children.  First John 3:1 says, “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” We have no need to compare ourselves to anyone to determine our worth because our worth has been eternally established and declared by the One who has no comparison.
2. We have become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “God made him who had no sin to be sin^[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
3. We are joint heirs with Jesus with all things eternal. In Romans 8:17 we read, “Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.”
4. We have been granted a seat with Christ in heaven. Ephesians 2:6 says, “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,”
5. God declares us to be fully qualified in Colossians 1:12. “giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.”

With all of that affirmation from God and His declaration of our worth, we are free from the bondage of comparisons. Now, instead of spending all of our time trying to earn the approval of people, we can grant them the approval that God wants them to know because we are living in it.

Pastor John