The more you love someone, the more you feel their pain. Jesus wept because he loved Mary and Martha,1 and he loves you too.
While sin continues to reign in this world, it will cause much pain. In order to be set free from our own sin, we must trust Jesus (death will not have the final say) and reach out and help the poor and oppressed. This is—and must be—part of the process of setting us free from our sin and teaching us how to love.
“God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: in this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.” (1 John 4:16b-21)
Loving others is the only way to set this world right.
“To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good.” ~ George MacDonald
The more we know how much God loves us, the less we will fear death; we will be willing to suffer, and even risk our own lives for the sake of others.2
“It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another.” ~ George MacDonald
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1. It was Mary and Martha's pain, that caused Jesus to cry. He knew Lazarus was ok (see John 11). He who is perfect love will have the final say, not death.
2. The truly good do what is right no matter how much pain they feel. God is truly good.