When a person is in pain, God feels his pain as well. Even though He is aware that the suffering is for the person's own good, and the suffering is only due to the person's lack of understanding, still the reality is that the person is suffering, and God suffers along. It's similar to a parent who is feeling the pain of a child taking unpleasant medicine. The child is crying and the parents know it's for his own good. Even though logically they know there is nothing about which to be upset, they feel it.
In the same vein, if a person is troubled about his spiritual state - by feeling that he is not achieving his spiritual goals - God feels his pain as well. Why focus then on one's (perceived) lowly state; why feel distant from God who he views as standing angrily wondering why the person isn't closer? Why not focus on the truth that as he is in pain due to his spiritual state God is right there with him feeling it as well!
In the same vein, if a person is troubled about his spiritual state - by feeling that he is not achieving his spiritual goals - God feels his pain as well. Why focus then on one's (perceived) lowly state; why feel distant from God who he views as standing angrily wondering why the person isn't closer? Why not focus on the truth that as he is in pain due to his spiritual state God is right there with him feeling it as well!
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