The wisest man in the world taught that when we succeed in our work, we will inevitably be targeted by envy.

King Solomon, in his vast experience dealing with human beings and receiving the wisdom of God, said:

“Again, I saw that for all toil and every skilful work a man is envied by his neighbour. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.” Ecclesiastes 4:4

The first thing we understand is that many people today, naturally, those who are not in the shelter of the Most High, are afraid of the envious and worry when people show envy or jealousy against them. So, they start using superstition, lucky charms, specific colours of clothes, rabbit’s feet, horseshoes and things like that. They desperately try to divert this evil energy called envy because the first and greatest envious person of all time is the devil. He looked at God’s throne and wished to be in His place.

So, when a person is not in the shelter of the Most High, they are exposed to this type of energy and seek to protect themselves from it in every way. Still, the only protection against envy is to be in the shelter of the Most High, which means living under the rules of the Word of God within the Kingdom of God. There, the King of this Kingdom is responsible for you.

Therefore, you don’t need to worry about envy because, as the verse says, the more success you have, the more you will attract the envy of your neighbour. So, the only way not to be envied is not to accomplish anything because everything you do that has the least success will attract envious looks. By the way, sometimes, you don’t need to do anything; just because you are who you are, you are already attracted to envy. You can’t change this because human beings, unfortunately, when they are away from God, approach evil. This is the first meaning of this word.

The other meaning of this word of King Solomon is that the person often wants to compete with their neighbour; they want to be very good at what they do to be better. Sometimes, they are okay and satisfied, but then someone doing better than them appears, so they want to do even better in front of that person. The person is successful, but they don’t accept that someone is more successful than them. So, they also become envious. This kind of attitude is also associated with pride. The person is proud to be the best, so they are always in this unbridled competition, wanting to prove to everyone that they are better.

Like God, the better person doesn’t need to prove anything to anyone. He does everything perfectly because He is Good and Powerful, not to prove anything to anyone, but because it is His nature. In the same way, the person who is good and has an excellent spirit does what is good without proving anything to others. By the way, if they see someone having greater success than theirs, they don’t bother.

The person who has God’s nature inside them root for the success of others. One of the signs of a very well-resolved person, very at peace with themselves and God, is this tranquillity with the success of others.

So search your heart because maybe you have been worried too much about the envy of others, and that means that you are not in the shelter of the Most High, or you have also lived in unbridled competition to prove something to others because you are jealous of them or afraid of being left behind. As King Solomon said, neither of these two situations is advisable: all this is vanity and grasping for the wind. It is not good, so don’t carry it.

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