Why does one get diseases despite having been spiritual since birth?

From: Birendra

have been a spiritual person since my birth. Even then God me diseases like BP and diabetes at an early age. Why?

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Question by Birendra.
I have been a spiritual person since my birth. Even then, God has given me diseases like blood pressure and diabetes at an early age. Why? Answer.
We should not expect that our devotion to God acts like a one-stroke insurance policy to protect us from all suffering. Yes, our devotion to God will indeed protect us from all suffering in the ultimate sense. The ultimate freedom from suffering is that we become liberated from material existence and return back to God, where we’ll be eternally happy in the spiritual world.
But, while we are in this world, all of us will inevitably experience misery because this world is essentially a place of misery. Trying to be happy in this world is trying to be dry while swimming in the ocean. It is hypothetically and practically impossible.
So, all of us have done certain karma in this life, in previous life, because of which we get certain results. You can read the three articles on karma in this site to understand more about karma. But essentially, some karma from our previous life may come upon us in this life.
So, that is why, although we may be pursuing a virtuous way of living right now, from our past life, certain reactions come to us now. At the same time, because we are living virtuously now, because we are devoting ourselves to God now, three things will happen. First is that our future is definitely bright.
Whatever good we are going to do, we are going to get a positive result for that. Second is that God, by His grace, minimizes the sufferings that we get. When Srila Prabhupada was asked by a devotee that, I was cutting vegetables for Krishna and Krishna let my finger be cut, why is that? Srila Prabhupada replied that by your karma your neck was supposed to be cut.
But Krishna, because of His mercy, minimized the karma so that you had only your finger cut. So, in the tenth canto of Srimad Bhagavatam, it is described that a devotee always sees that Krishna is so kind that I deserve to suffer much more, but Krishna has minimized the suffering. And most importantly, third point is, if we are devoted to God right now, that suffering will become a means for increasing our wisdom and making advancement in spiritual life.
You can read the article in the site, sickness is a spiritual opportunity for this. But suffice it to say that ultimately our highest gain will happen when we redirect our attention and our love from the body and things connected with the body to God. So, when our body starts getting diseased, then that can act as an additional impetus for us to turn towards God more wholeheartedly.
And when we turn towards Krishna more wholeheartedly and then take shelter of Him through His remembrance by chanting Hare Krishna and studying Bhagavad Gita, then the philosophy and the practice of Krishna consciousness will act like a buffer that will minimize the effect of bodily problems on us. So the bodily problems will be there, but because our consciousness is absorbed in Krishna, we will experience much decreased or minimal suffering because of this. And so take the present diseases not as an indication of God being negligent or God being unfair, but rather as God transforming your own destined karma into an opportunity for spiritual advancement.
So rather than blaming God for the unavoidable, look for the opportunity to grow spiritually, to go deeper into your relationship with Krishna, to realize that yes, this body is suffering, but ultimately I am not this body and I got sufferings a little earlier, but everybody including I would have got sufferings sooner or later because of the body. So better let me make myself so advanced that I can go beyond this body and I can realize my spiritual identity in relationship with Krishna and experience real shelter, succor and fulfillment in that relationship with Krishna. Thank you.