Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. (Romans.11.11 NIV)
Sometimes christians get offended by the prosperity of people who have not known the truth. When christians live lives which seem inferior, does it mean God has rejected them? No.
Scripture says, "for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity." (Proverbs.24.16). Though you stumble, you remain the righteousness of God by reason of Christ.
Now the thriving of the wicked is not supposed to cause offence but rather to send a signal into your spirit to remind you of what is available for you.
The envy in our theme scripture here is not supposed to be directed to the man prospering, but it is to cause you to have the feeling of taking charge of what your father has prepared for you as an inheritance.
Their prosperity should remind you that there are places in God -the owner of all things that you have not entered yet they are for you.
If a person who knows not the truth is above you who is the heir in God's house, how much more is available for you who has been given all things that pertain to life and godliness?
The head should question it's relationship with the body if it finds the legs above it. You are a head and not the tail, above only and not beneath. Check your relationship with God. You must get up above all the ungodly.
Hallelujah!
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