Elder David A. Bednar,
…The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but
also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the
emotional distresses that so frequently beset us. There is no physical pain, no
anguish of soul, no suffering of spirit, no infirmity or weakness that you or I
ever experience during our mortal journey that the Savior did not experience
first. You and I in a moment of weakness may cry out, ‘No one understands. No
one knows.’ No human being, perhaps, knows. But the Son of God perfectly knows
and understands, for He felt and bore our burdens before we ever did. And
because He paid the ultimate price and bore that burden, He has perfect empathy
and can extend to us His arm of mercy in so many phases of our life. He can
reach out, touch, succor—literally run to us—and strengthen us to be more than
we could ever be and help us to do that which we could never do through relying
upon only our own power. (Elder David A. Bednar “The Atonement and the Journey of Mortality,” Ensign, Apr. 2012.)
