If we don’t suffer, how is God supposed to sympathize with us?

[friend of]

Open question. If we don’t suffer, how is God supposed to sympathize with us?

 

[quietthinker]

This Planet's M.O. is one of suffering and God has identified with us.
We are all in a fishbowl even if some want to believe they are in the Ocean.
We are invited to look outside the fishbowl by seeing Jesus, the identifier with our limitations .....so that we can see.

 

[gordon7]

Open question. If we don’t suffer, how is God supposed to sympathize with us?

What do you call an open question, which has an answer already closed into it ? ( of God having sympathy for us)

The first verse that comes is to suffer for the sake of righteousness.

This is as Jesus has testified to us in the gospel, of losing our life to save it ( find it again) for the sake of Christ and the gospel.

Just as we see in apostle Paul, ( the apostle to the Gentiles/world) he became weak to gain the weak, and was made all things to all men, that he might save some, and this he did for the gospels sake. ( to be part takers together)..


Mark 8:35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

1 Corinthians 9:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

1 Peter 3:14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;