We explained in a previous post that the blessings that Hashem gives us in this world are not a reward in of themselves rather they are meant as fuel to keep us moving in a healthy way.
The Noam Eleimelech in the beginning of the second section of the Sefer, Likutei Shoshana brings out the aforementioned point in a a different Passuk.
The Passuk says: אשריך וטוב לך
It is good for you and praiseworthy.
This is obviously repetitious.
Chazal explains that the Passuk means:
אשריך בעולם הזה, it is praiseworthy for you in this world
וטוב לך עולם הבא and it is good for you for the next world.
Reb 'Meilach (as he is often lovingly referred to) explains, that here here too the word אשריך is not only a reference to the word praise, but againthe world אשר, meaning 'that', 'in which', or being connected to something else. He explains that the meaning of the Pasuk is that when your עולם הזה is "אשריך" - when it is being directed towards a higher purpose then it takes on not only the meaning of Praiseworthy, but it it generates וטוב לך עולם הבא and it is good for you for the next world as well.
Hashem should help us use our Gashmiyus properly.
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