Daily Chizuk #1041

We live in a place with an abundance of mitzvot opportunities available to us. And we are to gather as many as we can, because in the Next World there will be no more opportunity. It will be like a hunger for mitzvot. The wise person is able to live here and imagine already what it will be like there. There is no greater pleasure to be had than the ones reserved for the future life, but they will only be given to the ones who stored up enough mitzvot here first.
Sometimes people pray for things for a long time and don’t see the responses they are hoping for. They may feel that they are wasting their time and efforts by praying because seemingly their tefilot aren’t working anyway. There could be nothing further from the truth. The greatest gain they could possibly get is praying another heartfelt tefila. That is what will stay with them forever. And if Hashem enabled them to pray for a longer period of time with sincerity, that in essence was the greatest gift He could have given them.
When people take upon themselves to do extra mitzvot in the merit of receiving what they want and they don’t get what they want, they should not, chas v’shalom, feel that they worked hard for nothing. They got the greatest reward possible – the mitzvah itself. And if they continue growing and praying without receiving what they are hoping for, that makes the mitzvot and tefilot infinitely greater. Although it may not appear that way to us, that’s only because we don’t have the spiritual eyes to see what happens each time we do a mitzvah. But they are the שכר טוב and we should utilize every moment that we have in this world to grab as many of them as we can.