“Look For the Positive”
In Parshat Beha’alotcha, it says the following: “The people took to seeking complaints, it was evil in the eyes of G-d (Bemidbar 11:1).
Rashi says that the people didn’t really have a reason to complain, but rather were complaining as an excuse to keep space between themselves and G-d. By finding (what they thought to be) faults, it’s easier to distance oneself.
It’s very similar to relationships between people. You can technically be very good friends with someone but still be very distant on a personal and/or “emotional” level due to faults seen within the other person.
Often the same skills used in interpersonal relationships are necessary to be applied in your relationship with G-d.
It’s important to look for the positive side of all situations, as opposed to the negative. The same way you can make any situation positive, you can also make it negative.
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In Parshat Beha’alotcha, it says: “When you go to wage war in your Land against an enemy who oppresses you, you will sound short blasts of the trumpets, and you will be recalled before G-d, and you will be saved from your foes (Bemidbar 10:9).”
The Rambam gives an explanation to this. The Torah commands that the trumpets be sounded to awaken the congregation whenever the Land is struck by problems, whether it was war, drought, or epidemic, etc. These blasts are a call to repentance and a reminder that distress is a product of sin. For people to interpret such problems as merely coincidental is wrong, because this will prevent the nation from changing its ways and cause them to continue the corrupt practices that caused misfortune to fall on them in the first place.