Welcome to the Daily Chizuk (encouragement).
Someone once asked, “If everything Hashem does is good, and Hashem is so merciful, why doesn’t Hashem show me that it’s good? Why do things have to look bad?” The answer is that sometimes Hashem does show us why things were really good. But many times He conceals it from us. The Lev Simcha says the reason is simply that Hashem wants to give us the opportunity to trust in Him and receive the unbelievable benefits of this great mitzvah (commandment). Trusting in Hashem elevates a person to such a high level and brings blessing and salvation.
We all know the famous Gemara in Masechet (tractate) Berachot about Rabbi Akiva. He was once traveling on his donkey and looking for a place to stay at night, but nobody let him into the town, so he was forced to sleep in the forest. In the middle of the night, a lion came and ate his donkey, then a cat came and ate his rooster, and a wind blew out his candle. Rabbi Akiva kept saying, “Everything that Hashem does is good.” The next morning, when he saw that the town was ransacked and everybody had died, Rabbi Akiva said, “Oh, now I know why my donkey was killed. Now I know why the candle went out. Hashem was so kind.”
So a rabbi asked the question: “Hashem is the kol yachol (all-capable). Hashem could have made it so that Rabbi Akiva’s donkey stayed alive and nothing happened to him. He could have made it so that the donkey was quiet and the robbers didn’t see. Why did Hashem have to kill the donkey and make the candle go out?” And the rabbi said, “It was only because, after the candle went out, and the rooster was eaten, and the donkey was killed, Rabbi Akiva still said, ‘Everything Hashem does is good.’ It was because of the trust that Rabbi Akiva merited to be saved, that he merited this miracle.” Trusting in Hashem brings such blessing. Trusting in Hashem brings salvation.
Have a great day.