January 21, 2025 • 33 mins
Isn't it fascinating how a simple act of comparison can quietly creep into our lives, sowing seeds of envy that steal our joy? Join me on a revealing journey through the Moral Compass Chronicles as we confront this insidious thief of happiness.
Drawing from my own experiences as a musician and content creator, we explore how the constant bombardment of social media and the competitive nature of every day life can lead us into a cycle of unhealthy comparisons. Lets uncover how the singular fruit of the Spirit stands in stark contrast to the many works of the flesh, providing a path toward a life of genuine fulfillment.
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
grace and peace everybody.
Grace and peace to one and all.
Welcome to another.
Rendition of the moral compasschronicles.
I'm your man, I'm your host,I'm your tour guide.
You already know my name isEyon Johnson.
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really, really am excited to beback with you guys here.
That last episode, that lastchronicle, definitely took a lot
out of me, and you know that'sto be expected.
I expect that when God gets to,you know having his way, man,
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there's really not much youcould do about it, and so I am
grateful to be back, though Ihave an interesting topic here
today that I want to discusswith you all, topic here today
that I want to discuss with youall, and it's about how
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comparison kills.
I want to talk about comparingourselves to others.
Today.
It's a very interesting topicto me and I'm very interested in
finding out what you guys think.
So please continue to commentand share and download and like
and subscribe, all the above,and we will continue to rock out
and do what it is we gotta dohere.
Um, and I want to dive rightinto it man, comparison,
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comparison, man, it kills.
And I think there's a song Ithink it's jonathan mcreynolds
has a song called ComparisonKills as well.
They say that comparison is thethief of joy.
Right, I think I heard thatsomewhere.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
And when I think about joyfunny enough, and this is
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completely unrelated to thenotes that I have, you know, I
have a few bullet points.
I kind of wanted to make sure Ihit on.
But when I think about that wordjoy, I automatically think
about the fruit of the spiritand the Bible, the book of
Galatians.
It refers to the fruit of thespirit on one hand and the works
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of the flesh on the other hand.
And shout out to my brother, mybig brother, dj he.
I remember he was preaching amessage one time and he gave us
that revelation and I had neverreally seen this until he said
it and I had never really seenthis until he said it.
If you go back into your Bible,you will see that the Bible
refers to the fruit of thespirit as the fruit of the
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spirit.
It's in the singular form, butthe works of the flesh happens
to be in the plural Right Workswith the S on the end.
So the works of the flesh areplural and the fruit of the
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spirit is singular.
So I thought that was a very,very um, a very good revelation.
Um, and, quite honestly, justpaying attention to what the
text is saying, from my brother,um, but joy.
I was talking about joy, joy,the thief of that.
Joy can be comparison a lot oftimes and, on the other hand,
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envy.
Envy is one of the works of theflesh, ok, and I'm not going to
get too into what the otherones are.
We're going to talk about theenvy today, the comparison and
comparing ourselves to others,and not in a good way, not in a
constructive way, not in ahealthy way, because there is
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right.
If you're a competitor likemyself, sports I play a lot of
sports and I'm very competitiveand you can compare yourself
competitively, right?
How am I doing in thisparticular basketball game I'm
playing in, as opposed to theperson who's on the other side
of the court with me or theother side of the field.
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Right, there are different waysto compare yourself in a
healthy manner, but there aremany ways that we, as a people
and as a society, we findourselves comparing ourselves to
one another in a way that isnot healthy, and that is when
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your comparison starts to becomethe thief of your joy.
That is when the comparisonstarts to turn into envy to some
degree.
Right, I hope you, I hope, Ihope you're still with me.
All right, I, I am.
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I am getting more and more intocontent creation, right, and a
lot of you who have beenfollowing me for a while now you
may have seen going back to, ohman, wow, when I started doing
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these style of videos and stufflike that, with this particular
content which I then started torealize would become the moral
compass chronicles, right, um,but if I even look back bro, oh,
my goodness, watch this I cango back to 20, the early, the
mid 2010s, late 2010s, early2020s, when I was I was making
content, content.
I'm a musician.
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A lot of you may know I'm amusician.
I play the drums and I try tofake play the organ a little bit
and I fake play the bass and so, um, but I'm, I'm really a
drummer and there was a whilewhere I was posting a lot of
drum videos and like even I meaneven on YouTube.
If you, I have a youtubechannel that I created for my
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organization and you can go backto, oh my god, and a lot of the
older videos are privated, butyou, I can legitimately go back
to the early 2010s and I justthink about how even we, as
musicians, we compare ourselvesto other musicians.
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It's like constantly acompetition, oh my god.
And don't even get me startedon the musicians who be on that
fake love, oh my lord.
See, I'm already going down apath.
I didn't, I didn't plan to gohere, bro, but maybe I'm talking
to my fellow musicians now.
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Maybe this is for y'all now,bro, because, man, we have a
very disgustingly fake way ofbeing in competition with one
another, bro.
It's actually, it's actuallysickening to the point where I
personally, I don't even likebeing in that music scene no
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more, bro.
I don't even enjoy playingmusic out anymore for real.
Like it got to a point where Ireally stopped taking gigs and
stuff like that.
And anybody knows, as a musicianmusician, bro, you can make
some really good money as amusician and I, I, bro, I hate
the music industry, bro, the andyo, the, the gospel and
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christian music industry, man,it it is.
If you're not careful, bro,just like you know almost
everything else if you're notcareful you will get lost in
that sauce, and I have seen guysthat I know, bro, get lost in
that sauce and it is nasty work.
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It is nasty, nasty work, bro.
So I I mean I don't want to gotoo far into that and make this
about that, but I feel like thatis a good exit.
That is a way I and see me, bro, I have even found myself I've
never been one to really getinto the fake love stuff as a
musician and showing fake loveoh you, oh you, killing doc, I
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need to get like you.
I need some lessons, I needsome.
Nah, I never really got intothat type of thing, but I have
found myself in the pastcomparing my skill level to
other musicians's skill leveland I never, really ever got too
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high when I realized I wasbetter than another like
particular musician.
I never, I never did that, butI have allowed myself to get to
concerned about what otherpeople have thought about my
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musical skill level and, bro,this is 100% transparency.
I heard Paul speaking, funnyenough.
I'm talking about the book ofGalatians and the fruit of the
spirit works of the flesh.
In that very same book, chapternumber one, if you go back and
read it, paul says that if evenan angel from heaven were to
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come down and tell you any andpreach any other gospel other
than the one of Jesus Christ andthe one that the apostles have
been teaching and now the onethat the apostolic church,
myself has been teaching, any,if even an angel could, were to
come down from heaven and preachany other gospel, let them be
accursed.
That's what Paul says in thebook of Galatians.
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Well, this is the moral compass.
Chronicles and allow me to giveyou a chronicle of mine tells
you that they have never, everbeen, have they have never, ever
found themselves comparingthemselves in one way or another
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to another musician.
I'm not going to say let thembe accursed.
I'ma just say I call cap.
You're a liar.
You're lying, bro.
You're lying.
You're lying, bro.
You're lying sis.
I know some killing femalemusicians as well.
Anybody who says they havenever been, they have never
compared themselves to anothermusician, you're lying if you've
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never said oh, I'm better thanthis musician in your mind, even
if you don't say it out loud,anybody who says they ain't
never said in their mind yo, I'mbetter than this guy, or oh, oh
, you know, I think it's betterthan me, or something.
And a lot of times we find itdifficult to say that, excuse my
language.
We find it difficult whenanother musician is better than
us, but we have no problem whenwe're better than another
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musician.
You know what I'm saying.
When we're better than anothermusician, you know what I'm
saying?
Real interesting stuff.
Again, this is just.
This is one of my manyexperiences with comparison.
Comparison, excuse me, beingtoxic.
Comparison can be toxic, andevery one of us, man, you know
who you are, you know what youhave dealt with.
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You too have had yourexperiences with comparison,
probably both good and bad, bothgood and bad, and I just don't
want us, because y'all are somegood people, man, and I love
y'all, I care about you guys.
I don't want you guys to gettoo caught up in comparing
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yourselves to other people,because you will have your joy
zapped from the very thing thatyou enjoy doing, whatever that
thing may be.
The book of proverbs.
Um, I'm not trying to give toomany scriptures, but in the book
of Proverbs I'm not trying togive too many scriptures, but in
the book of Proverbs itactually says that envying is
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like rottenness to the bones.
Envy, envy is like rottennessto the bones.
You know what?
What it is?
When something is rotting, thatmeans it's dying.
When something is becomingrotten, it is dying.
When something is becomingrotten, it is dying.
And a lot of times whensomething is rotting, it's dying
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from the inside out.
That's a word.
When something rots, that meansthere's something going on on
the inside, it's dying from theinside.
And when you see a fruit startto show those brown spots on the
outside, it doesn't start fromthe outside in, it starts from
the inside out.
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And comparison and envying moreso envying, because not all
comparison is envying, butenvying.
We'll do that to you.
Envy will rot your bones fromthe inside out.
To you, envy will rot yourbones from the inside out.
And watch this.
Once that rottenness starts toshow on the outside, it's more
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than likely too late.
You're more than likely alittle far.
You might be a little too fargone now, because once you start
to see mold on the outside,that means that it has already
spread on the inside.
Oh, my goodness, I didn't evenplan to go there.
So we got to be careful, we gotto be careful.
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Comparison is the thief of joy,and when that comparison turns
into envy, which is one of theworks of the flesh, it becomes
rottenness to your bones.
We got to be careful, we got tobe careful.
I'm not sure what yoursituation is, I'm not sure what
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you're dealing with.
I don't know what your hobby isand or your job, whatever it
may be.
Be very careful that yourcomparisons don't turn into envy
, because envy is rotten.
I have, oh, I have seen peopleenvy one another, and it is ugly
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.
I talked about the musicians,and it is ugly.
I talked about the musicians.
Can I talk about my, my, my,listen, I'm a, I am a son, I am
a husband and I love women.
I have a lot of little sisters.
I have big sisters.
I have seen women when theystart to compare themselves to
one another and that comparisonturns into envy.
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Oh, my God, it is rotten and itstinks and it's ugly.
When something starts to rot,it starts to decay.
That's what it means.
You start to decay.
That's what.
That's what it means.
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You start to decay and the gagis.
A lot of times now we will envywhat somebody else has Right,
whether it's their looks orsomething they own, and that
rottenness that is on the inside.
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Mind you, we're comparingourselves to somebody else and
now I'm going now that envystart.
It turns into self-hatredSometimes when I'm comparing
myself.
Now I was talking about evenback to the music.
Let me go back to my.
Let me stop talking about thelady I'm not going to go in on
y'all, let me go back to me.
I use myself.
About the lady I'm not going togo in on y'all, let me go back
to me.
I use myself as the example.
If I now am finding myselfcomparing myself as a musician
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or as a basketball player, as a,as a salesman I used to be in
sales as a content creator, letme let's talk about me.
If I find myself comparingmyself and my ability to create
content, comparing myself and myability to create content, I
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find myself comparing my abilityto create content with someone
else's ability to create content.
And if I'm not careful and thatcomparison becomes
unconstructive, that comparisonwill start to turn into envy.
That comparison will start toturn into envy.
And now I'm envying the otherdrummer and his ability to play,
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and the gag is we playing inchurch and here I am using a
gift that God gave me and I'menvying your gift, oh Lord.
Hey, I don't want to go too farinto that and I'm not going to
make this about the church,because the envying it's when
you get to a point where you areenvying someone else, that is
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deep rooted.
That is truly a work.
One of the works of the flesh,bro.
See, the fruit of the spirit is, is is singular.
That means it's all of thefruits of the spirit that make
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up the fruit of the spirit, butthe works of the flesh, they are
individually eat away at you asan individual, so that envying
by itself will start to decay myinsides, start to eat away at
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who I am as a person.
Oh, my God, we got to becareful.
We got to be careful.
I have had some experiences andI've talked about comparison and
envying and man.
Can we talk about how we copyone another?
Now, like the copying oneanother, one another?
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Because now, watch this, I, Ilike what I see from you.
Right, we may like what we see,because we're comparing
ourselves to others and you know, it gets so unhealthy and
dangerous.
We have our children doing itnow.
The youngsters are doing itmore than anybody.
Oh, lord, have mercy, help me,help me, lord, help me.
And this tick tock thing, thisInstagram, this social media
thing, bro, it is a, it is amonster, strong-minded, spending
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all of their time on socialmedia, spending hours and hours
at a time scrolling their phones, scrolling social media, and we
are seeing some of the mostperfect looking content coming
from the most imperfect people,and I don't know who needs to
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hear this, but none of us areperfect, and so I am.
We find ourselves looking atthis doctored up content that
has been perfected.
It has been run through everysingle content.
Um, uh, video editing software.
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We have run it through ourvideo editing software.
Now we got this AI editingsoftware all over the place,
where you can make things thatlook like one thing completely
change and look like somethingelse, and so people have applied
this editing to their lives tomake it look like something it
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is not, and we are just eatingthis stuff up.
We are spending all our time onsocial media and just digesting
all of this edited content andwe want our lives to look like
that on an everyday basis.
I don't know who needs to hearthis, I don't know who this
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message is for, but that contentcreator that you see, bro,
their life does not look likethat.
That model, oh boy, uh, oh, I'mabout to get in trouble now.
I'm about to get in trouble.
Yo, that model that youfiending for, bro, she don't
really look like that Sis.
That yo, yo, he don't reallylook like that in person.
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Watch this.
Let me take it a step further.
Forget about them looking likethat.
They not really like that inperson.
Who can I go there, bro?
I have seen some of the finestwomen on instagram and I'm a
married man now, so I could talkabout the past.
I y'all, y'all can't do sorry.
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Y'all can't do nothing to me,no more.
I got a wife now.
I ain't worried about y'all, nomore.
So I could talk now I couldtalk, and I've never I never
disrespect anybody or nothing,but I'm just saying I ain't
worried about no other women'sopinion, no more.
For real.
I have a wife, so I have.
I have seen some women boy onsocial media and see how they
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present themselves for real andlike who they make themselves to
be to the world.
Forget about social media now,because social media is just one
element.
We do this in public also.
Right, where I am buttering upand I've done it also, I'm
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guilty.
I'm guilty of this as well.
We butter up who we are, wepretty up who we are, we make
ourselves to be this specificperson that we truly are not
behind closed doors.
And, bro, I have been with somefine ass women Can I call it
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what it is?
I have very high standards forwomen.
I have been with some beautifulwomen, bro, who look like one
thing on social media and whenyou see them in public, they
look like one thing for real.
And they you know this and thatand they, you know, okay, love
it A lot of times.
That's what attracted me tothem in the first place.
But then, boy, behind closeddoors and I am a sinner saved by
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grace man Going to sleep andwaking up with them in the past,
completely different people,seeing who some of these people
really were at their core, onthe inside Right.
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Completely different people.
Let us flee from these sorts ofthings.
My brothers and my sisters,beloved ones, we need to be
running from these things.
Do not find yourself, if youhave been listening to the sound
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of my voice and you feel likeon the inside and I pray that
you have been listening to thesound of my voice and you feel
like on the inside and I praythat you're not upset with me.
Okay, you feel like on theinside.
Any part of that has applied toyou, mind you, I just gave you
my personal testimonies, a fewof them, of things that I have
been guilty of.
Okay, so don't believe, pleasedon't think I'm pointing a
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finger at you, because you knowwhat happens when you point your
finger at somebody.
You got at least three fingerspointing right back at you,
right?
So I am speaking fromexperience.
Some of these things I amguilty of, some of these things
I have seen other people guiltyof and I have had to endure.
If you find that any of thesethings apply to you, come out of
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it.
Come out of it.
You are able to come out of it.
You are not a slave to envy.
You are not a slave tocomparison.
You can come out of that.
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If you find yourself that youare surrounded by people who who
fit this shoe for real, you gotsome distancing to do, you.
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You got some distancing to do.
You need to distance yourselffrom from from these people,
because rottenness can spread.
You ever see a a rotten fruittouching a healthy one and the,
the exact spot that the healthyfruit is touching, the rotten
fruit, you see, starts to becomerotten itself.
That's what happens.
That's what happens and I hateto say it, but I have seen this
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many times.
Oh Lord, have mercy, but youknow what.
God is calling you out of it,he's calling us out of it, us
Stop I, we got to stop movingwith the crowd, just because the
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crowd is moving.
You see that, the people thatyou know, you around and your
friends or your family, that'sthe type of time they be on, bro
, where they, they compare them,constantly comparing themselves
.
And you see, that's the thing.
When people compare themselvesin public, it's typically in a
way that makes them look good,bro, but you know what man, out
of the abundance of the heart,the mouth speaks.
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So if you just sit and listento some people sometimes and all
you hear is them talking aboutother people, all you hear is
them comparing themselves andwhat they got going on to other
people, how nobody got motionlike them, and so on and so
forth, bro, more than likely,bro, on the inside they are
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heavily invested in what otherpeople are doing.
Whoo oh nah, somebody not gonnalike that.
If you find that people areconstantly comparing themselves
to others, constantly talkingabout other people, constantly
comparing how you know how whatthey got going on versus what
other people got going on, howwhat they got going, their
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motion is better, yo, not allemotion is good motion.
Not all emotion is good motion.
Let's get hey, here's anunpopular opinion.
Let's start.
Let's start having motion withmorals.
Motion this is the moralcompass chronicles.
Right, let's start.
Let's start having motion, butwith morals, because not all
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motion is good motion.
Yo, you find that people aroundyou moving like that, bro,
distance yourself and a lot oftimes these people they run in
packs a lot of times.
Hey, I didn't even I'm sorry, Iapologize in advance a lot of
times and listen, they run inpacks A lot of times.
Hey, I didn't even I'm sorry, Iapologize in advance A lot of
times and listen, I know none ofy'all are like this.
So this is just an eye openerand a warning for you, my
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brothers, my sisters, my fellowbeloved ones.
I want you to be aware ofwhat's going on out there.
All right, and I pray thisdoesn't apply to any of you guys
, but you ever see and I'm done,I'm just about done, I'm gonna
wrap up here you ever see a lotif you drive, if you drive often
, you you know that a lot oftimes traffic don't really be
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traffic like traffic.
Be looking backed up for real.
And you ever, you ever likeweave around the traffic and you
realize that it was just agroup of cars, kind of like
driving together, huddled, andyou pass them and you got
nothing but wide open road afterthat and you were like, bro,
what's wrong with y'all?
It's like them, first line ofcars, like in each lane, y'all
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going like you know a specificmile per hour and it's like
blocking up everybody else.
But and then you got to weavethrough them sometimes to like
pass them and get away from them, and once you do that, you got
nothing but open road in frontof you.
And then a lot of times you gotopen road until you hit the
next patch of cars and they'redriving together.
Yo, people run in packs likethat in real life too, everyday
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life too, and all motion is notgood motion.
All motion is not good motion.
All motion is not good motion.
All traffic is not good traffic.
I don't know who that's for, man, I don't know who that's for.
These are just some of myexperiences.
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Even right right now, man, I'mcreating content.
I'm learning Premiere Pro evenmore and more.
I'm learning this differentstuff more and more.
Bro, I find myself seeing I seeone of my homegirls post a fire
piece of content.
I was just on Instagram an hourago Saw my homegirl post a fire
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piece of content, saw myhomeboy nasty with the editing
bro, and for me that's like yo,I love this, but one one of
these days I'm gonna get here.
One of these days I'm gonna bethis good and guess what?
I, one of my homegirls bro or,um, not necessarily my homegirl,
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but somebody who you know I'mfond of and I we grew up
together, low-key back in theday and we follow each other on
instagram nasty with the contentcreation.
I hit her up the other day,like yo, I'm having this issue
right here with premiere how doI do this, how do I do that?
And, boom, sent me a voicemessage back answering a
question.
Let me, yo, let me know if youneed me to record a video for
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you and I'll send it to you, bro.
That's how we're supposed tomove.
That's how we're supposed tomove.
I'm not gonna compare myself,mind you.
She's probably.
She probably went to school for, for editing and and not
editing specifically, but, likewhatever you know, went to
school for journaling and hastaken courses for um, video
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editing and and stuff like thatbro probably put has put hours
into this stuff.
Here I am now episode five ofmy podcast, trying to break down
some videos and make somecontent.
I got some nerve, bro, tocompare myself to a professional
.
Come on, man, that'sfoolishness, bro.
You know, you don't know howmuch time and work people have
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put in.
Don't compare yourself in anunhealthy way.
If you're gonna compareyourself, bro, allow somebody
else's progress.
Allow somebody else's successto push you in a healthy way.
Shout out to my uh, my, my bro,even from back in the day, my
man Corey.
I've seen him post stuff likethat, bro, about allowing
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somebody else's success to pushyou in a healthy way towards
your own success.
You're not, don't?
You're not hating on them,we're not.
What that's?
That's envy.
When the comparison turns intoenvy, it becomes rotten in your
heart and you, because you beginto wither away from the inside
out, and the devil is a liar,bro.
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That will not happen to any ofy'all.
So allow the success ofsomebody else to motivate you in
a healthy way, especially ifyou're in that particular field.
If you're doing the same sortof thing, have no problem
reaching out to somebodysometimes.
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Ask for help, bro.
That's the ultimate sign ofhumility.
Humble yourself and you'll beexalted.
This is the Moil compasschronicles, man.
This is the moral compasschronicles.
And comparison kills.
It's the thief of all joy.
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It turns into envy and the envyturns into rottenness.
Envy is like rottenness to thebones, and I don't know about
you, but my bones ain't about torot anytime soon.
I love you guys.
I appreciate you, man.
Until next time, stay tuned.
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This is the Moral CompassChronicles.
grace and peace everybody.
Grace and peace to one and all.
Welcome to another.
Rendition of the moral compasschronicles.
I'm your man, I'm your host,I'm your tour guide.
You already know my name isEyon Johnson.
You can find me on just aboutevery single listening platform
podcast listening platform, thatis.
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That last episode, that lastchronicle, definitely took a lot
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I expect that when God gets to,you know having his way, man,
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there's really not much youcould do about it, and so I am
grateful to be back, though Ihave an interesting topic here
today that I want to discusswith you all, topic here today
that I want to discuss with youall, and it's about how
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comparison kills.
I want to talk about comparingourselves to others.
Today.
It's a very interesting topicto me and I'm very interested in
finding out what you guys think.
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Um, and I want to dive rightinto it man, comparison,
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comparison, man, it kills.
And I think there's a song Ithink it's jonathan mcreynolds
has a song called ComparisonKills as well.
They say that comparison is thethief of joy.
Right, I think I heard thatsomewhere.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
And when I think about joyfunny enough, and this is
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completely unrelated to thenotes that I have, you know, I
have a few bullet points.
I kind of wanted to make sure Ihit on.
But when I think about that wordjoy, I automatically think
about the fruit of the spiritand the Bible, the book of
Galatians.
It refers to the fruit of thespirit on one hand and the works
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of the flesh on the other hand.
And shout out to my brother, mybig brother, dj he.
I remember he was preaching amessage one time and he gave us
that revelation and I had neverreally seen this until he said
it and I had never really seenthis until he said it.
If you go back into your Bible,you will see that the Bible
refers to the fruit of thespirit as the fruit of the
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spirit.
It's in the singular form, butthe works of the flesh happens
to be in the plural Right Workswith the S on the end.
So the works of the flesh areplural and the fruit of the
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spirit is singular.
So I thought that was a very,very um, a very good revelation.
Um, and, quite honestly, justpaying attention to what the
text is saying, from my brother,um, but joy.
I was talking about joy, joy,the thief of that.
Joy can be comparison a lot oftimes and, on the other hand,
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envy.
Envy is one of the works of theflesh, ok, and I'm not going to
get too into what the otherones are.
We're going to talk about theenvy today, the comparison and
comparing ourselves to others,and not in a good way, not in a
constructive way, not in ahealthy way, because there is
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right.
If you're a competitor likemyself, sports I play a lot of
sports and I'm very competitiveand you can compare yourself
competitively, right?
How am I doing in thisparticular basketball game I'm
playing in, as opposed to theperson who's on the other side
of the court with me or theother side of the field.
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Right, there are different waysto compare yourself in a
healthy manner, but there aremany ways that we, as a people
and as a society, we findourselves comparing ourselves to
one another in a way that isnot healthy, and that is when
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your comparison starts to becomethe thief of your joy.
That is when the comparisonstarts to turn into envy to some
degree.
Right, I hope you, I hope, Ihope you're still with me.
All right, I, I am.
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I am getting more and more intocontent creation, right, and a
lot of you who have beenfollowing me for a while now you
may have seen going back to, ohman, wow, when I started doing
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these style of videos and stufflike that, with this particular
content which I then started torealize would become the moral
compass chronicles, right, um,but if I even look back bro, oh,
my goodness, watch this I cango back to 20, the early, the
mid 2010s, late 2010s, early2020s, when I was I was making
content, content.
I'm a musician.
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A lot of you may know I'm amusician.
I play the drums and I try tofake play the organ a little bit
and I fake play the bass and so, um, but I'm, I'm really a
drummer and there was a whilewhere I was posting a lot of
drum videos and like even I meaneven on YouTube.
If you, I have a youtubechannel that I created for my
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organization and you can go backto, oh my god, and a lot of the
older videos are privated, butyou, I can legitimately go back
to the early 2010s and I justthink about how even we, as
musicians, we compare ourselvesto other musicians.
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It's like constantly acompetition, oh my god.
And don't even get me startedon the musicians who be on that
fake love, oh my lord.
See, I'm already going down apath.
I didn't, I didn't plan to gohere, bro, but maybe I'm talking
to my fellow musicians now.
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Maybe this is for y'all now,bro, because, man, we have a
very disgustingly fake way ofbeing in competition with one
another, bro.
It's actually, it's actuallysickening to the point where I
personally, I don't even likebeing in that music scene no
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more, bro.
I don't even enjoy playingmusic out anymore for real.
Like it got to a point where Ireally stopped taking gigs and
stuff like that.
And anybody knows, as a musicianmusician, bro, you can make
some really good money as amusician and I, I, bro, I hate
the music industry, bro, the andyo, the, the gospel and
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christian music industry, man,it it is.
If you're not careful, bro,just like you know almost
everything else if you're notcareful you will get lost in
that sauce, and I have seen guysthat I know, bro, get lost in
that sauce and it is nasty work.
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It is nasty, nasty work, bro.
So I I mean I don't want to gotoo far into that and make this
about that, but I feel like thatis a good exit.
That is a way I and see me, bro, I have even found myself I've
never been one to really getinto the fake love stuff as a
musician and showing fake loveoh you, oh you, killing doc, I
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need to get like you.
I need some lessons, I needsome.
Nah, I never really got intothat type of thing, but I have
found myself in the pastcomparing my skill level to
other musicians's skill leveland I never, really ever got too
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high when I realized I wasbetter than another like
particular musician.
I never, I never did that, butI have allowed myself to get to
concerned about what otherpeople have thought about my
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musical skill level and, bro,this is 100% transparency.
I heard Paul speaking, funnyenough.
I'm talking about the book ofGalatians and the fruit of the
spirit works of the flesh.
In that very same book, chapternumber one, if you go back and
read it, paul says that if evenan angel from heaven were to
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come down and tell you any andpreach any other gospel other
than the one of Jesus Christ andthe one that the apostles have
been teaching and now the onethat the apostolic church,
myself has been teaching, any,if even an angel could, were to
come down from heaven and preachany other gospel, let them be
accursed.
That's what Paul says in thebook of Galatians.
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Well, this is the moral compass.
Chronicles and allow me to giveyou a chronicle of mine tells
you that they have never, everbeen, have they have never, ever
found themselves comparingthemselves in one way or another
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to another musician.
I'm not going to say let thembe accursed.
I'ma just say I call cap.
You're a liar.
You're lying, bro.
You're lying.
You're lying, bro.
You're lying sis.
I know some killing femalemusicians as well.
Anybody who says they havenever been, they have never
compared themselves to anothermusician, you're lying if you've
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never said oh, I'm better thanthis musician in your mind, even
if you don't say it out loud,anybody who says they ain't
never said in their mind yo, I'mbetter than this guy, or oh, oh
, you know, I think it's betterthan me, or something.
And a lot of times we find itdifficult to say that, excuse my
language.
We find it difficult whenanother musician is better than
us, but we have no problem whenwe're better than another
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musician.
You know what I'm saying.
When we're better than anothermusician, you know what I'm
saying?
Real interesting stuff.
Again, this is just.
This is one of my manyexperiences with comparison.
Comparison, excuse me, beingtoxic.
Comparison can be toxic, andevery one of us, man, you know
who you are, you know what youhave dealt with.
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You too have had yourexperiences with comparison,
probably both good and bad, bothgood and bad, and I just don't
want us, because y'all are somegood people, man, and I love
y'all, I care about you guys.
I don't want you guys to gettoo caught up in comparing
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yourselves to other people,because you will have your joy
zapped from the very thing thatyou enjoy doing, whatever that
thing may be.
The book of proverbs.
Um, I'm not trying to give toomany scriptures, but in the book
of Proverbs I'm not trying togive too many scriptures, but in
the book of Proverbs itactually says that envying is
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like rottenness to the bones.
Envy, envy is like rottennessto the bones.
You know what?
What it is?
When something is rotting, thatmeans it's dying.
When something is becomingrotten, it is dying.
When something is becomingrotten, it is dying.
And a lot of times whensomething is rotting, it's dying
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from the inside out.
That's a word.
When something rots, that meansthere's something going on on
the inside, it's dying from theinside.
And when you see a fruit startto show those brown spots on the
outside, it doesn't start fromthe outside in, it starts from
the inside out.
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And comparison and envying moreso envying, because not all
comparison is envying, butenvying.
We'll do that to you.
Envy will rot your bones fromthe inside out.
To you, envy will rot yourbones from the inside out.
And watch this.
Once that rottenness starts toshow on the outside, it's more
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than likely too late.
You're more than likely alittle far.
You might be a little too fargone now, because once you start
to see mold on the outside,that means that it has already
spread on the inside.
Oh, my goodness, I didn't evenplan to go there.
So we got to be careful, we gotto be careful.
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Comparison is the thief of joy,and when that comparison turns
into envy, which is one of theworks of the flesh, it becomes
rottenness to your bones.
We got to be careful, we got tobe careful.
I'm not sure what yoursituation is, I'm not sure what
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you're dealing with.
I don't know what your hobby isand or your job, whatever it
may be.
Be very careful that yourcomparisons don't turn into envy
, because envy is rotten.
I have, oh, I have seen peopleenvy one another, and it is ugly
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.
I talked about the musicians,and it is ugly.
I talked about the musicians.
Can I talk about my, my, my,listen, I'm a, I am a son, I am
a husband and I love women.
I have a lot of little sisters.
I have big sisters.
I have seen women when theystart to compare themselves to
one another and that comparisonturns into envy.
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Oh, my God, it is rotten and itstinks and it's ugly.
When something starts to rot,it starts to decay.
That's what it means.
You start to decay.
That's what.
That's what it means.
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You start to decay and the gagis.
A lot of times now we will envywhat somebody else has Right,
whether it's their looks orsomething they own, and that
rottenness that is on the inside.
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Mind you, we're comparingourselves to somebody else and
now I'm going now that envystart.
It turns into self-hatredSometimes when I'm comparing
myself.
Now I was talking about evenback to the music.
Let me go back to my.
Let me stop talking about thelady I'm not going to go in on
y'all, let me go back to me.
I use myself.
About the lady I'm not going togo in on y'all, let me go back
to me.
I use myself as the example.
If I now am finding myselfcomparing myself as a musician
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or as a basketball player, as a,as a salesman I used to be in
sales as a content creator, letme let's talk about me.
If I find myself comparingmyself and my ability to create
content, comparing myself and myability to create content, I
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find myself comparing my abilityto create content with someone
else's ability to create content.
And if I'm not careful and thatcomparison becomes
unconstructive, that comparisonwill start to turn into envy.
That comparison will start toturn into envy.
And now I'm envying the otherdrummer and his ability to play,
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and the gag is we playing inchurch and here I am using a
gift that God gave me and I'menvying your gift, oh Lord.
Hey, I don't want to go too farinto that and I'm not going to
make this about the church,because the envying it's when
you get to a point where you areenvying someone else, that is
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deep rooted.
That is truly a work.
One of the works of the flesh,bro.
See, the fruit of the spirit is, is is singular.
That means it's all of thefruits of the spirit that make
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up the fruit of the spirit, butthe works of the flesh, they are
individually eat away at you asan individual, so that envying
by itself will start to decay myinsides, start to eat away at
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who I am as a person.
Oh, my God, we got to becareful.
We got to be careful.
I have had some experiences andI've talked about comparison and
envying and man.
Can we talk about how we copyone another?
Now, like the copying oneanother, one another?
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Because now, watch this, I, Ilike what I see from you.
Right, we may like what we see,because we're comparing
ourselves to others and you know, it gets so unhealthy and
dangerous.
We have our children doing itnow.
The youngsters are doing itmore than anybody.
Oh, lord, have mercy, help me,help me, lord, help me.
And this tick tock thing, thisInstagram, this social media
thing, bro, it is a, it is amonster, strong-minded, spending
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all of their time on socialmedia, spending hours and hours
at a time scrolling their phones, scrolling social media, and we
are seeing some of the mostperfect looking content coming
from the most imperfect people,and I don't know who needs to
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hear this, but none of us areperfect, and so I am.
We find ourselves looking atthis doctored up content that
has been perfected.
It has been run through everysingle content.
Um, uh, video editing software.
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We have run it through ourvideo editing software.
Now we got this AI editingsoftware all over the place,
where you can make things thatlook like one thing completely
change and look like somethingelse, and so people have applied
this editing to their lives tomake it look like something it
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is not, and we are just eatingthis stuff up.
We are spending all our time onsocial media and just digesting
all of this edited content andwe want our lives to look like
that on an everyday basis.
I don't know who needs to hearthis, I don't know who this
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message is for, but that contentcreator that you see, bro,
their life does not look likethat.
That model, oh boy, uh, oh, I'mabout to get in trouble now.
I'm about to get in trouble.
Yo, that model that youfiending for, bro, she don't
really look like that Sis.
That yo, yo, he don't reallylook like that in person.
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Watch this.
Let me take it a step further.
Forget about them looking likethat.
They not really like that inperson.
Who can I go there, bro?
I have seen some of the finestwomen on instagram and I'm a
married man now, so I could talkabout the past.
I y'all, y'all can't do sorry.
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Y'all can't do nothing to me,no more.
I got a wife now.
I ain't worried about y'all, nomore.
So I could talk now I couldtalk, and I've never I never
disrespect anybody or nothing,but I'm just saying I ain't
worried about no other women'sopinion, no more.
For real.
I have a wife, so I have.
I have seen some women boy onsocial media and see how they
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present themselves for real andlike who they make themselves to
be to the world.
Forget about social media now,because social media is just one
element.
We do this in public also.
Right, where I am buttering upand I've done it also, I'm
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guilty.
I'm guilty of this as well.
We butter up who we are, wepretty up who we are, we make
ourselves to be this specificperson that we truly are not
behind closed doors.
And, bro, I have been with somefine ass women Can I call it
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what it is?
I have very high standards forwomen.
I have been with some beautifulwomen, bro, who look like one
thing on social media and whenyou see them in public, they
look like one thing for real.
And they you know this and thatand they, you know, okay, love
it A lot of times.
That's what attracted me tothem in the first place.
But then, boy, behind closeddoors and I am a sinner saved by
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grace man Going to sleep andwaking up with them in the past,
completely different people,seeing who some of these people
really were at their core, onthe inside Right.
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Completely different people.
Let us flee from these sorts ofthings.
My brothers and my sisters,beloved ones, we need to be
running from these things.
Do not find yourself, if youhave been listening to the sound
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of my voice and you feel likeon the inside and I pray that
you have been listening to thesound of my voice and you feel
like on the inside and I praythat you're not upset with me.
Okay, you feel like on theinside.
Any part of that has applied toyou, mind you, I just gave you
my personal testimonies, a fewof them, of things that I have
been guilty of.
Okay, so don't believe, pleasedon't think I'm pointing a
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finger at you, because you knowwhat happens when you point your
finger at somebody.
You got at least three fingerspointing right back at you,
right?
So I am speaking fromexperience.
Some of these things I amguilty of, some of these things
I have seen other people guiltyof and I have had to endure.
If you find that any of thesethings apply to you, come out of
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it.
Come out of it.
You are able to come out of it.
You are not a slave to envy.
You are not a slave tocomparison.
You can come out of that.
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If you find yourself that youare surrounded by people who who
fit this shoe for real, you gotsome distancing to do, you.
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You got some distancing to do.
You need to distance yourselffrom from from these people,
because rottenness can spread.
You ever see a a rotten fruittouching a healthy one and the,
the exact spot that the healthyfruit is touching, the rotten
fruit, you see, starts to becomerotten itself.
That's what happens.
That's what happens and I hateto say it, but I have seen this
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many times.
Oh Lord, have mercy, but youknow what.
God is calling you out of it,he's calling us out of it, us
Stop I, we got to stop movingwith the crowd, just because the
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crowd is moving.
You see that, the people thatyou know, you around and your
friends or your family, that'sthe type of time they be on, bro
, where they, they compare them,constantly comparing themselves
.
And you see, that's the thing.
When people compare themselvesin public, it's typically in a
way that makes them look good,bro, but you know what man, out
of the abundance of the heart,the mouth speaks.
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So if you just sit and listento some people sometimes and all
you hear is them talking aboutother people, all you hear is
them comparing themselves andwhat they got going on to other
people, how nobody got motionlike them, and so on and so
forth, bro, more than likely,bro, on the inside they are
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heavily invested in what otherpeople are doing.
Whoo oh nah, somebody not gonnalike that.
If you find that people areconstantly comparing themselves
to others, constantly talkingabout other people, constantly
comparing how you know how whatthey got going on versus what
other people got going on, howwhat they got going, their
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motion is better, yo, not allemotion is good motion.
Not all emotion is good motion.
Let's get hey, here's anunpopular opinion.
Let's start.
Let's start having motion withmorals.
Motion this is the moralcompass chronicles.
Right, let's start.
Let's start having motion, butwith morals, because not all
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motion is good motion.
Yo, you find that people aroundyou moving like that, bro,
distance yourself and a lot oftimes these people they run in
packs a lot of times.
Hey, I didn't even I'm sorry, Iapologize in advance a lot of
times and listen, they run inpacks A lot of times.
Hey, I didn't even I'm sorry, Iapologize in advance A lot of
times and listen, I know none ofy'all are like this.
So this is just an eye openerand a warning for you, my
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brothers, my sisters, my fellowbeloved ones.
I want you to be aware ofwhat's going on out there.
All right, and I pray thisdoesn't apply to any of you guys
, but you ever see and I'm done,I'm just about done, I'm gonna
wrap up here you ever see a lotif you drive, if you drive often
, you you know that a lot oftimes traffic don't really be
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traffic like traffic.
Be looking backed up for real.
And you ever, you ever likeweave around the traffic and you
realize that it was just agroup of cars, kind of like
driving together, huddled, andyou pass them and you got
nothing but wide open road afterthat and you were like, bro,
what's wrong with y'all?
It's like them, first line ofcars, like in each lane, y'all
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going like you know a specificmile per hour and it's like
blocking up everybody else.
But and then you got to weavethrough them sometimes to like
pass them and get away from them, and once you do that, you got
nothing but open road in frontof you.
And then a lot of times you gotopen road until you hit the
next patch of cars and they'redriving together.
Yo, people run in packs likethat in real life too, everyday
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life too, and all motion is notgood motion.
All motion is not good motion.
All motion is not good motion.
All traffic is not good traffic.
I don't know who that's for, man, I don't know who that's for.
These are just some of myexperiences.
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Even right right now, man, I'mcreating content.
I'm learning Premiere Pro evenmore and more.
I'm learning this differentstuff more and more.
Bro, I find myself seeing I seeone of my homegirls post a fire
piece of content.
I was just on Instagram an hourago Saw my homegirl post a fire
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piece of content, saw myhomeboy nasty with the editing
bro, and for me that's like yo,I love this, but one one of
these days I'm gonna get here.
One of these days I'm gonna bethis good and guess what?
I, one of my homegirls bro or,um, not necessarily my homegirl,
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but somebody who you know I'mfond of and I we grew up
together, low-key back in theday and we follow each other on
instagram nasty with the contentcreation.
I hit her up the other day,like yo, I'm having this issue
right here with premiere how doI do this, how do I do that?
And, boom, sent me a voicemessage back answering a
question.
Let me, yo, let me know if youneed me to record a video for
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you and I'll send it to you, bro.
That's how we're supposed tomove.
That's how we're supposed tomove.
I'm not gonna compare myself,mind you.
She's probably.
She probably went to school for, for editing and and not
editing specifically, but, likewhatever you know, went to
school for journaling and hastaken courses for um, video
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editing and and stuff like thatbro probably put has put hours
into this stuff.
Here I am now episode five ofmy podcast, trying to break down
some videos and make somecontent.
I got some nerve, bro, tocompare myself to a professional
.
Come on, man, that'sfoolishness, bro.
You know, you don't know howmuch time and work people have
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put in.
Don't compare yourself in anunhealthy way.
If you're gonna compareyourself, bro, allow somebody
else's progress.
Allow somebody else's successto push you in a healthy way.
Shout out to my uh, my, my bro,even from back in the day, my
man Corey.
I've seen him post stuff likethat, bro, about allowing
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somebody else's success to pushyou in a healthy way towards
your own success.
You're not, don't?
You're not hating on them,we're not.
What that's?
That's envy.
When the comparison turns intoenvy, it becomes rotten in your
heart and you, because you beginto wither away from the inside
out, and the devil is a liar,bro.
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That will not happen to any ofy'all.
So allow the success ofsomebody else to motivate you in
a healthy way, especially ifyou're in that particular field.
If you're doing the same sortof thing, have no problem
reaching out to somebodysometimes.
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Ask for help, bro.
That's the ultimate sign ofhumility.
Humble yourself and you'll beexalted.
This is the Moil compasschronicles, man.
This is the moral compasschronicles.
And comparison kills.
It's the thief of all joy.
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It turns into envy and the envyturns into rottenness.
Envy is like rottenness to thebones, and I don't know about
you, but my bones ain't about torot anytime soon.
I love you guys.
I appreciate you, man.
Until next time, stay tuned.
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This is the Moral CompassChronicles.
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