Divine Guidance and Care

"The Night of Power is better than a thousand months."
God offers us divine guidance and care, which are superior to a hundred thousand strivings and struggles. One tug from God is better than the efforts of all our powers.
That is to say, when divine care intervenes it does the work of a hundred thousand struggles and more. Struggling is fine, and useful, but what is it compared to God’s guidance and care?
The Amir asked: “Does God’s care create struggles?”
Rumi answered: Why shouldn’t it? When divine care arrives, struggling begins. Jesus - what a struggle he made! Yet John the Baptist recognized that gift while still in Mary’s womb.
Grace comes first. Then if, by accident, awareness enters in, this is the fruit of God’s grace - the pure gift of the Lord. If this were not true, then how could Jesus’ disciples have received such blessings?
Grace and submission are like a spark of fire that leaps. First we receive the gift. But if you add cotton and nurse that spark until it grows, then that is submission. In the beginning your spark is small and weak. But once you have nursed that weakling fire it spreads across the world and sets the universe aflame. The little spark becomes a great and powerful blaze.
Fihi Ma Fihi - Discourse 12 -A. J. Arberry