That is what we have to think over so carefully. In our lives which things are we like Avraham Avinu who saw the spiritual light and which things are we like Efron living in darkness.
The obvious question is how do we merit seeing things in a similar light like Avraham Avinu?
The Passuk gives us the answer.
Avraham Avinu ran after the ox. He put in effort and his whole essence in doing the Mitzva to perfection.
We can’t expect to enjoy davening if we don’t daven. Rabbi Shimshon Pinkus zt”l in his Sefer Shearim Betfilla (Gateways to Prayer) explains that if we come late to Shul, miss out half of davening and schmooze to our friends during davening we don’t stand a chance to ever feel anything. First we have to daven, to daven from Ma Tovu till Aleinu. We have to have to come on time to Shul or possibly a little early so we can daven in the order of the Siddur without skipping out anything. This way hopefully we can daven at a pace that we have the few moments to actually concentrate on what we are saying and bit by bit find parts of davening we can relate and connect to.
Then, not only will we be doing the davening properly, the davening will begin doing something to us!
