Our Purpose in This World | Rabbi Asher Berenbaum

In the beginning of the Sefer Mesillas Yesharim, where the Ramchal discusses the purpose of a person in this world, he states the following, The purpose of a person in this world is only to fulfill the Mitzvos of Hakadosh Baruch Hu to serve Hakadosh Baruch Hu and to withstand the test that the world presents. A person has to realize that he finds himself in this world in a fierce battle, the Milchemes Hayetzer. And to be able to overcome the Yetzer, the Milchama, and win the Milchama, a person has to have a strategy how to accomplish that. And he brings a Gemara that mentions the Pasuk of The Gemara explains the Pasuk, Hamoshlim is referring to those who rule over their Yetzer Hara, and they said, Let's make an accounting. Which means that in order for a person to win the battle with the Yetzer, he has to be constantly in the situation where he's accounting everything he does. הוי מחשב A person has to weigh everything he does. When it's a question of doing a Mitzvah, the Yetzer Hara will come to him and say, There's a certain loss in doing the Mitzvah. You have to get up in the morning, say Krias Shema, it's cold. It's a certain loss. He has to give up his comfort to be able to be Mekayem the Mitzvah. But he has to weigh on the other side the Schar, the reward that Hashem has in store for him for doing the Mitzvah. And the same person has to weigh, when the Yetzer Hara tries to entice a person to do an Aveira, Rachmana Litzlan, he has to also weigh the benefit that the Yetzer Hara is appealing to him and promising him versus the loss that a person will suffer, because of this Aveira. And if a person doesn't live with a Cheshbon, he does things without accounting, without thinking, then there's no way that he'll be able to overcome the Yetzer Hara and win this war, win the battle. The Gemara says in Kiddushin, that the Yetzer Hara is Misbager on a person every day, tries to overpower a person every day, and if Hakadosh Baruch Hu wouldn’t help him, he's not able to overcome him. So a person has to realize that he's constantly in a battle with the Yetzer Hara and he needs Siyata D’Shmaya to overcome the Yetzer Hara. And a person who sincerely doesn't want to be Over the Ratzon Hashem, doesn't want to do a חטא, he should be Mispallel to Hakadosh Baruch Hu, from the deepness of his heart, Hashem, I beg You, I don't want to be Over Your Ratzon. I don't want to transgress Your will. And the Chazal in Tefillah inserted in many places this Tefillah of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, save me from an Aveira. אל תביאנו לא לידי חטא ולא לידי עבירה. We should be Zoche to do the Ratzon Hashem and that's where a person should try to concentrate especially, with deep concentration, to sincerely beg Hakadosh Baruch Hu to save him from the Yetzer Hara. And in this way, B’Siyata D’Shmaya, we’ll be Zoche to the purpose that we were created for, to be Zoche לחיי עולם הבא.