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Difficulties can best be dealt with through self-restraint. When we internalize the idea that it isn’t a stroke of bad luck we will have the courage to believe and face the challenge with success.
Coincidence is a concept that frightens us; weakening our ability to make it through the dilemma.
In spite of the fact that we can’t always figure out the purpose behind certain events, it does not mean there isn’t a Divine logical reason and purpose. My famous saying, “G-d has a plan, I just don’t know what it is!” Emuna is remaining loyal to the teaching that Hashem has a fantastic reason why He planned our life just so. Hashem’s way is the best way.
Indeed we do not have the spiritual eyes through which clarity is absorbed. Yet holding onto Hashem through difficult times means we don’t interpret difficulties as a ‘stroke of bad luck’; but as a growing tool that serves our ultimate benefit eternally. After 120 the ‘big picture’ will be clearly displayed before us because our limited corporal vision will be a thing of the past.
Finite existence is one of the main obstacles of emuna living. We are self-contained, living in a bubble of time and space and only see within the context of our finite and relative bubble. Therefore the greatest impression we need to sear into our minds and hearts is that there is a greater reality. Eventually when our bubbles burst we will see what was outside of us all along.
