Daily Chizuk #1018

The Noam Elimelech writes, "Every single generation has a unique avoda that they are expected to work hard in." Eight years ago, Rav Steinman was asked, "What is the unique avoda of our generation?" And the rabbi answered, "emunah." That could explain why no matter how many times we hear the same concepts in emunah, they are so difficult to internalize and apply when the circumstances call for it. This is our avoda. It's not going to be easy, and therefore we must constantly strengthen ourselves in it.
We know our parnasa comes from Hashem, but so many things happen over the course of a business day that make it very hard for our person to keep his emunah strong.
Emunah is not easy, but with a little chizuk, it is very attainable. We can give ourselves chizuk by paying attention to the things that go on in our everyday lives.
The more we see Hashem's hand in our parnasa and the less we see of our own hand, the stronger our emunah will become and the better we'll be able to do the avoda of our generation of having full emunah in Hashem