The prophets, in their lifetime, went through great difficulties in their worldly existence. Mohammed had to leave Mecca because there was a plot to kill him. On the way out he had to hide and the story of the spiders in the cave. He finally got to Medina and you would think that the people from Mecca would leave him alone because he left, but no, they continued their efforts to do away with him and he had to defend himself. His life was in jeopardy. The very existence that was bringing this great message to the world was in jeopardy.
When Moses went to the mountain, the people at the foot of the mountain began to reject him. Out of sight, out of mind. They built an idol in direct rejection of what he was teaching. Abraham was thrown into a pit of fire and had to endure the torments of that.
What held these prophets together in these times of incredible difficulty of, of incredible abuse that the world was giving them. They had a very powerful faith. They had a very powerful belief system. They had a understanding that transcended their worldly circumstance.
Now each of us, in our own way is presented with great difficulty. Each of us gets tortured in this world one way or another. Each of us goes through times when we believe everything is stacked against us, whether it be by way of financial trauma, physical trauma, relative trauma. Trauma is constantly thrown into our existence.
