This concept that HASHEM is present and right here is the basis of all bitachon. If a person doesn’t know that HASHEM is present in his life, any discussion of relying on HASHEM is foolish. How can I rely on HASHEM when He isn’t even here? What good is trusting in HASHEM if HASHEM isn’t on the scene, right here to watch over me? Bitachon, by definition, means knowing that HASHEM is here, supervising me and involved in my life.
While this may seem self-evident, in practice it is highly elusive. To truly know it requires much work, and to a large extent, this is the measure of a person’s ruchniyus. However, it is also one of the easiest things to do – to simply remember that HASHEM is here. Right here. As I speak, as I think, as I read. Not some millions of miles away up there in the sky, but right here. This single cognition has a dramatic effect on my entire relationship to HASHEM, on all of my Avodas HASHEM, and ultimately on my entire life.
