Even Jesus wept when confronted with the death of Lazarus. And if a loved one were to travel to a distant location that allowed no contact I would be sorrowful. Your analogies don’t connect with me at all and seem to dismiss the natural and healthy feelings of grief that accompany the loss of a loved one. I say this as a Christian brother.
Question, did HE weep because of Lazarus was dead, for those who grieved he died, or because Jesus had to bring Lazarus back to life knowing he would be persecuted when the religious leaders make a vow to murder him also?
I lean on the beliefs He weeped because He knew Lazarus’s pain and suffering was over, but now He will rip him from Abraham’s bosom and bring him back into this miserable world.
Also, the Scriptures tell us that the Jews believed he wept because He love Lazarus so much.
Joh 11:35 Jesus wept.
Joh 11:36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
Jesus knew he was OK, He even stated Lazarus just sleeps, because as GOD, Jesus looks at the soul, not the body..
So to say what you claim is the same speculation the Jews made.
We truly do not know why HE wept, but I still stand by my understanding as I stated.
I agree with you, and I'm a Christian too. I can't think of my dead loved ones as being in Hawaii having a great old time. They're not in the next room, they're not overseas. There is an enormous gulf between the living and dead. The fact is, they're gone from our sight and senses, and to make matters almost unbearable, we might not see them for decades. It's that tremendous, lonely span of time that makes the biggest difference.