Before the advent of social media, they have this idiom “keeping up with the joneses” and when millennials entered the scene a new term was coined: FOMO which means fear of missing out. They both have the same meaning: to ride the trends and social norms so that you won’t feel left out. While it creates excitement and happiness, it can also lead to unnecessary comparison which ends up in anxiety and envy.

It’s hard to fight it especially if you are constantly exposed to it. We need the Holy Spirit to have proper discernment and cultivate discipline to deliberately choose what is right. If we put GOD in our top priority, he will reveal to us the things we overlook whenever we choose to focus on what the world is enticing us. Contentment can only be found if we remain on his side.

Because if He who created the whole universe and gave us the best gift we can receive – salvation through his only son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, what more can we ask for? Whatever we need, He will surely provide, we never have to compete with anyone.