Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won't need to compare yourself to anyone else. 

Galatians 6:4 NLT

Makes you wonder what was going on in the Galatian church that prompted Paul to write this...

There must've been comparing, and perhaps that led to ranking, placing some types of work as more important than others, a more than/less than. 

I wonder if that is still something we need to be aware of?

Do I judge people by what they do?

Rank them?

Compare myself to them?

It can be hard not to right?

Paul gives an antidote to focus on our own work whatever that looks like, get our satisfaction from the work, not the validation or recognition of others. 

This is not always easy, but there's a freedom that arrives when we let the work become its own reward. Whether we volunteer, are paid, are a student, employee, boss, run our own business, or for whatever reason can't work, the differences matter less and less when we live in the freedom of being God's children, in the freedom that Grace brings, and the validation or recognition, the comparing with others matters less and less.

#galatians 

#letters

#somethingtochewon