Please disable your Ad Blocker to better interact with this website.

Doug's Columns

Satan Loves It When We Compare Ourselves To ‘Worse Sinners’

It’s easy to find someone whose faults are more ‘obvious’ than your hidden ones… and VERY dangerous.

“Thank you that I am not as other men… like this tax collector”.

It’s easy to call him out for that… until you realize you’re doing exactly the same thing.

The danger is that we set ourselves as the measurement of proper living. Someone whose life outshines ours might be ‘too much’, a ‘legalist’ or a ‘zealot’.

Someone who’s been bolder in acting upon the same sins we are privately drawn to is WORSE than us.

Where’s Jesus in that comparison? Nowhere.

And that’s the point. If our eyes are on ourselves and our brother, and NOT on Jesus, El Diablo already has us on the ropes and we don’t even know it.

But when we compare ourselves to the risen Christ and His Word, his Holy Spirit can actually work on our hearts and start to fix what’s broken in us.

If we don’t really think we don’t need fixing, we’ve robbed ourselves of the work of the Word in our hearts.

And if you think that not much is riding on this — wait until we get to point three.

Sit down. Strap on a helmet. Dig in… to the glory of God.

It’ll do your soul good.

Take this show (and our other juicy goodness) to go with any of your favorite podcast providers. You can also catch up on any episodes you may have missed:

Apple Podcasts
Google Play Music
Spotify
Soundcloud
Stitcher

Hit the Instagram and Facebook Page with a ‘Like’, too.

Get Doug Giles’ new book:

Rules For Radical Christians is not a survival devotional designed to help the young Christian adult limp through life. Rather, it is a road-tested, dominion blueprint that will equip the young adult with leadership skills and sufficient motivation to rise to a place of influence in an overtly non-Christian culture. Rules For Radical Christians gives the reader the keys to become strategically equipped to move into an anti-theistic environment and effectively influence it for the glory of God.

Get yours today!

You can choose either the classic Paperback to trigger your college professors and quasi-communist classmates, or the Kindle edition to always have it on hand.

By the way, since Facebook has unpublished ClashDaily’s page, your best bet to keep in the loop is to Subscribe to our ClashDaily Newsletter right here:

Become a Clash Insider!

Sign up for our free email newslettaer, and we’ll make sure to keep you in the loop.

We’re also moving onto a new platform, MeWe. It’s like Facebook without the data breaches and censorship.

Sign up and you can still get all the ClashDaily goodness by joining our MeWe group.

Do you love what we’re doing at Clash?

Do you want to kick in to our ‘war chest’ so that we Happy Warriors can maximize the size of the footprint we leave on Leftism’s backside? Here’s a link for ya to do just that.

Stay Rowdy!

Doug Giles

Doug Giles is Pastor of Liberty Fellowship in Wimberley, TX, and is the founder of ClashDaily.com (290M+ page views). Giles is also the author of the NEW book, The Wildman Devotional: A 50 Day Devotional For Men. Follow Doug on Instagram and Truth Social at @thegilesway and on Twitter @TheArtOfDoug.

Related Articles