You can't win at the comparison game. (Wanting to be "exceptional" is such a game.) Why can't you win? Let's say you're doing tennis. You play with your fri

You can't win at the comparison game. (Wanting to be "exceptional" is such a game.) Why can't you win? Let's say you're doing tennis. You play with your friends. But you're determined to be exceptional, so you take some coaching and you practice a lot. Soon you're beating all your friends. But then you move on to playing a different group of people - people that your coach knows - and you enter tournaments. If you win all the local tournaments, you start playing in state tournaments, and then regional ones, and then national ones. You keep upping the comparison group. That's why you can't win that game. Same thing with money. If you're the richest person in the neighborhood, you move to a better neighborhood, and then you're not the richest any more. Christianity says that humans have worth, simply because they are made in the image of God. Not because of what they do, not because they're better at something than someone else, just because of what they are. You need to grab that, or something like it. You are worthwhile for being you, not because you can "achieve" or "do" or "do better than".