He Really Walked A Mile in Your Shoes...

"He lived two thousand years ago, I believe

So how could he truley know me

Though the Son of God

My life, my friend

Still it's hard for me to comprehend...

And I wonder...

How could he know the heartache I feel

When He lived a perfect life?

From Gesthemene to Calvary

Was it really for me that he died?

Then the spirit wispers these words ringing true

From the garden to the cross,

He walked a mile in my shoes

Down on His knees in the garden that night

With tear-stained eyes

He lived each moment of our lives

Every fear and insecurity I've ever known

My every fallen moment,

He has atoned
But still I wonder...

How could he know the heartache I feel

When He lived a perfect life?

From Gesthemene to Calvary

Was it really for me that he died?

Then the spirit wispers these words ringing true

From the garden to the cross,

He walked a mile in my shoes

How could he know the heartache I feel

When He lived a perfect life?

From Gesthemene to Calvary

Was it really for me that he died?

Then the spirit wispers these words ringing true

From the garden to the cross,

He walked a mile

From the garden to the cross,

He walked a mile in my shoes"

Sometimes it's hard to understand why we are going through lifes random challanges. Some make sense and it's easy to see what it is that we are supposed to learn, but others are more difficult.  We may question and wonder just as this song "He Walked a Mile in My Shoes" by the Nashville Tribute Band states, "How could he know the heartache I feel?" Especially "...when He lived a perfect life..." Alma 7: 11-13  talks about what exactly Christ went through during His time in the Garden of Gesthemene and what this means for you and me. It reads

And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.

  And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.

 Now the Spirit knoweth all things; nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the flesh that he might take upon him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance; and now behold, this is the testimony which is in me.

I take comfort in the fact that Jesus Christ, through His suffering in the Garden of Gesthemene and on the cross: AKA the Atonement, (refering to the scripture above) knows EXACTLY how I am feeling. Because of His suffering He knows EXACTLY how to help me and EXACTLY what I am to learn from whatever lies infront of me.

"...Then the spirit wispers these words ringing true,

from the Garden to the Cross, He [truley] walked a mile in my shoes..."

Because of His suffering, He really has walked a mile, infact porbably more than that, in my shoes. And because He's walked a mile in my shoes... He's walked a mile in YOURS...