Not Far
As Dorothy Day has said, “I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.” The gap Jesus was identifying that day is our ability to say we love God while hating or being indifferent to those God loves.
Need
Jesus was not a Christian! And, many he encountered and blessed were not observant Jews. Still Jesus knows faith when he sees and hears it.
Whirlwind
Though our suffering shakes us to our core, the answer out of the “whirlwind” of our circumstances is that God is Almighty! And, just because our suffering is not relieved on our timetable does not mean God is lacking in power.