If one relies on the Creator while at the same time he rebels against Him how ignorant is such a person how weak is his mind and his intellect! For he can see that in human relationships when an individual is charged with a certain responsibility by another person who either commands him to attend to one of his affairs or cautions him about something and he violates that person's command if word of his violation then reaches the one who commanded him it will be the strongest reason for nonfulfillment of that for which he had relied on the other
This is certainly true then of one who rebels against H'shem and transgresses His statutes and commandments for which He promised reward and threatened punishment. If he relies on GD his hopes will be dashed and he will not deserve to be called "one who trusts in GD"
Once, on a Motzoei Shabbos, the chasidim were sitting in the bais medrash of the Ruzhiner Rebbe zy”a for Melave Malka. Suddenly, the Rebbe opened the door of his room next to the bais medrash, stood at the entrance, and said, “The Baal Shem Tov was not a deity, and the zaida, the Magid, was not just an ordinary wagon driver. And once, when the holy Baal Shem Tov prayed, his talis fringe fell out of his gartel and dragged on the floor. The Magid approached, picked it up, and put it back in the gartel, but he was trembled with such tremendous fear that he fainted and his life was in danger. They were compelled to rouse the Baal Shem Tov from his deep dveikus in order to calm him.” He then added, “I told you that the Baal Shem Tov was not a deity and my zaida, the Magid, was no wagon driver. Still and all, when he touched the Besht’s garment, he fainted from fear. The entire world is Hashem’s garment. How much fear must we feel to touch this world!” May the memory of the...