My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.
In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
I have a really close relationship with God. I have more conversations with God, and it's very therapeutic to me. It helps me through a lot of trials and tribulations.
We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.