Oh for the believer, our assignment is to encourage and comfort people. To fill them with the hope of salvation, and to be so brimming with hope that it infects everyone around us! It is the absolute call of every Christ follower to offer up a solution to those ready to faint under the weight of difficulty and adversity.
He says “hands” and “knees” because strength resides mainly in the arms and the lower limbs. If these become feeble, our entire being becomes powerless and ineffective.
Oh fellow bearer of the cross... we carry the good news to be broadcast to every nation!
And it’s simply not enough to be “sorry” for those who suffer around us. But to be active in the participation of compassion. Scriptures tell us that Jesus was MOVED by compassion. Not sympathy. Because sympathy is different.
By definition sympathy means: harmony of or agreement in feeling; the power of sharing feeling with another, especially in sorrow or trouble; approval.
Compassion, on the other hand, means: a feeling of sorrow for another, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
Such a beautiful difference!
There are several reasons for weakened hands and knees, some of which include chronic infancy (unwillingness to move into Christian maturity), starvation (living without the influence of feasting on His Word), fear, or laziness. And my sympathy for you only approves your condition. But when I offer compassion... ahh... now I’m offering a way out of the wilderness for those who can’t otherwise find light in their darkness.
My commentary says that we have a great privilege of putting the, “... brightness of hope into the sky and helping chase the dark clouds away!”
Pity must be practical. It must be move us to put our hand to the plough and work to redeem what was once lost.
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