It is not their wickedness, but their "misery", not the disobedience, but their "suffering," that elicits the God of Heaven's tears.  Not until Gethsemane and Golgotha does the scriptural redord reveal so unflinchingly the costly investment of God's love in His people, the price at which He placed His heart upon them.  There could be nothing in this universe, or in any possible universe, more perfectly good, absolutely beautiful, worthy of adoration, and deserving of emulation, than this God of love and kindness and vulnerability   That is why a gesture of belief in His direction, a decision to acknowledge His virtues as the paramount qualities of a divided universe  is a response to the best in us, the best and noblest of which the human soul is capable.  A God without body or parts is conceivable.  But a God without passions would engender in our hearts neither love nor interest.  In the vision of Enoch, we fine ourselves drawn to a God who prevents all the pai He can, assumes all the suffering He can, and weeps over the misery He can neither prevent nor assume.

---The God who Weeps