Parshas Vayikra- How Your Weakness is Meaningful to G-D

There's a silver lining in your weakness.

It's embarrassing when you're less than average in your self-control. No matter how hard you try you keep on losing to your urges. You look around and it seems as if your friends don't share the same impulses as you. You start feeling ashamed for who you are and see no good in your "weak" nature.

Well, what if this nature of yours is precisely the thing that is bringing you closer to G-D.

Moses wasn't able to donate to the tabernacle because he had no issue departing from his money, so it wouldn't be meaningful to G-D. It was only the regular Jew who struggled to give from his money that the Creator saw his sacrifice and cherished the donation.

So, in our lives when we notice that we're weaker than the rest and we struggle mightily to pass our tests, the Creator is noticing our efforts. It's more meaningful to Him.

The person to whom it comes easy to isn't sacrificing anything to pass this test, so he isn't showing as much dedication as the to whom it comes hard to

Idea from Shem M'Shmuel