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Dovid HaMelech ztk’l sang awesome songs of praise to Hashem and so can we! How? By recognizing that all is from Hashem and not due to our might and power.
Knowing is one thing; taking it to heart and stirring our emotions with this knowledge is another. Singing is an outer expression of a heartfelt feeling. We can truthfully praise Hashem and enter a state of kingship as Dovid HaMelech if we chose to live our lives as he did. Dovid HaMelech did hishtadlut but never forgot that his successes and failures were due solely to Hashem.
We live in a world where the yetzer hara constantly feeds us the message of the Western world, ‘Work and you shall achieve’. Our calling is to run away from the bearers of this message as one who runs from fire. Some say the message is not so harmful, what’s the big deal anyway?! Yet if we follow their advice we will be enticed to sin and our emuna will be weakened.
It may begin with innocent reading of the local newspaper or socializing with others who believe it to be true. Yet eventually we become incited by the secular way of thinking. ‘It is just worthless chatter… a business meeting….’ However, it all has a profound effect of us without us even being aware.
The yetzer hara smiles at us like a friend but secretly is our enemy. He tells us tales, paints us fantasies, and targets our feelings. He sells us old merchandise inside a dazzling package all the while being worthless.
Our ammunition is our awareness; we are being tricked! “Success is not due to my might and intellect. Everything is precise and given in accordance to Hashem’s will no matter how much I do.” Those are the words that brings us to sing as Dovid HaMelech did.
Today’s daily dose of emuna is sponsored L’iluy nishmat Tzviya bas Mordechai z’l. May her neshama bask in the Divine radiance among all the tzaddikim who have departed from this world, Amen.
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