Daily Chizuk #1071

Two people can go through the exact same potentially stressful situation with one of them remaining calm and happy while the other gets stressed and anxious. The difference between them stems from their perspective on the situation. The more of a baal bitachon a person is, the better he’ll be able to handle the situation. Imagine, Person A comes and sits down next to Person B and starts annoying him. B tries to ignore it, but A persists and just keeps getting more and more annoying. At some point, B is most probably going to explode. But what if B is told that A was sent by his prospective employer to test his patience? All of a sudden, he wouldn’t feel irritated anymore. And what if he was told that each time A tries to annoy him, he gets $10,000 deposited into his bank account? Then, his heart would be filled with joy each time that person tries to annoy him.
The more we internalize that only Hashem runs the world, the better we’ll be able to handle anything that comes our way.