'When our feet are tired
When our feet are tired after the day's tasks and journeys
When our feet are tired after the day's tasks and journeys , it ought to be a very precious comfort to remember that our blessed Master had like experience, and therefore is able to sympathize with us.
It is one of the chief sadnesses of many lives, that other people do not understand them, do not sympathize with them.
Others move about us, our neighbors and companions — even our closest friends — and laugh and jest and are happy and light-hearted — while we, close beside them, are suffering.
They are not aware of our pain; and, if they were, they could not give us real sympathy, because they have never had any experience of their own that would interpret to them our experience.
Only those who have suffered in some way, can truly sympathize with those who suffer. One who is physically strong, and has never felt the pain of weariness — cannot understand the weakness of another whom the least exertion tires.
The man of athletic frame who can walk all day without fatigue, has small sympathy with the man of feeble health who is exhausted in a mile.
"For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are!" Hebrews 4:15