What is It To You?

Jesus, after resurrecting from the grave, goes fishing with His friends. They have a good time, eat together, and He even reminds one of the friends, Peter, of how much he is loved. Peter gets it and then he doesn’t.

Just a few short moments later, after Jesus has explained to Peter of how he was going to help the church out, Peter looks at another one of their friends and says, “What about him?” Jesus replied, “What is it to you?”

We spend so much of our lives comparing ourselves to other people. Who’s got more talent, the bigger house, or the nicer car. If our lives are a blank page where we get to write whatever we want, we constantly are looking at other people wondering what they are writing. Imagine being in fourth grade and being asked by your teacher to write a one-page essay about what you did this summer and you start copying what Jimmy did instead. 

“Wow, Mikey, it’s kind of wild that you and Brian both went to Florida with your cousins named Andrew and Sarah.”

When it comes to your story, who THEY are, isn’t interesting. But we spend some much time wondering what others are doing, thinking, writing, creating, building, growing that we miss what we are supposed to be doing, thinking, writing, creating, building, or growing. 

What is it to you what they do? How does that help build what God has put in your hand? If we spend more time comparing the tools we were given to the ones that were given to others, we miss that love that we can be creating. 

If were are given this blank page to write our own story, spending all of the time watching others write does nothing for us. Every choice we make shapes the person we become. We choose whether we die without ever putting ink on the page.