Daily Chizuk #1006

The Chovot HaLevavot writes that one of the benefits of being a bote’ach b’Hashem is that a person could stop feeling like he has to be a slave to others or like he has to impress others. When a person feels like he needs other people to help him, he’ll naturally feel the burden of having to do whatever it takes to please those people. But if he knows Hashem is the only One in charge of giving him everything he could ever want, he will only need to focus on Hashem alone. It takes a lot of work to fully believe that people are just messengers and that everything that happens is only by the word of Hashem. But the closer we come to that realization, the closer we’ll be to attaining full bitachon.
Having bitachon is a mitzvah which provides benefits in this world as well. The pasuk says in parashat Behar ואיש כי לא יהיה לו גואל והשיגה ידו ונגאל. And the tzaddikim found a hint in this pasuk to the great rewards given to those who put their bitachon in Hashem. ואיש כי לא יהיה לו גואל – a man who does not put his trust in his relatives and truly understands that there is no other redeemer – then השיגה ידו ונגאל – he will get what he needs and be redeemed.
אשרי הגבר אשר יבטח בה' – fortunate is the man who is able to have complete bitachon in Hashem.