Reminds me of the famous story- A man hears a radio report that a storm is coming an everyone should evacuate. He didn’t feel it was necessary because he has faith in God and God will save him. The rain starts pouring down, and his first floor is flooded. He is standing by the window and a guy in a motor boat drives by offering to save him. He responds “No thank you. I have faith in God and God will save me”. The flood waters cover his house and he is standing on the roof. A helicopter comes by and offers to save him. He responds “No thank you. I have faith in God and God will save me”. The man drowns. When he is standing before God, he doesn’t understand what happened, why hadn’t God saved him? God responded: “I sent you a radio a report, a motor boat, and a helicopter… what more did you want?”
We daven multiple times a day for Hashem to return us to our homeland. How do we know that Hashem hasn’t already answered those prayers? How do we know, that if we complain to God, asking why he didn’t answer our tefilos, that God wouldn’t respond “I sent you the medina, the right of return, and Nefesh B’Nefesh… what more do you want? Do we really mean our tefilos when it is within our ability to take advantage of the opportunities that God gave us to make those tefilos come true? When we bench and thank Hashem for Eretz Yisroel, but don’t legitimately try to take this gift that we’re thanking Hashem for… are we saying thanks but no thanks? Are we not being slightly hypocritical with our tefilos?