You don't have to be a driver to know the road

• One day I was on a bus going into the town centre.  The driver had stopped to give directions to an oncoming truck driver, and they were talking through their open windows.  I heard the truck drier ask where a certain trading estate was, and felt sure that the bus driver would know where it was, simply because he was a bus driver.  However, the bus driver did not know where the trading estate was, and proceeded to give the truck driver instructions to get to a completely different trading estate.
• I was familiar with the trading estate that the truck driver needed to find and so was able to give him instructions on how to get there, and thought I should get up, go to the front of the bus and tell him. However, I hesitated too long, reasoning with whether or not I should do it, and missed the opportunity, and the truck driver went off in the wrong direction.  I was taught a valuable lesson that day.
• When we have been to a place we are able to instruct others on how to get there.  Knowledge of how to get to a place does not depend on whether you are a driver or not, but on whether you have been to that place, and we do not all travel down the same road in life.  The same rule applies with scripture. If in a particular situation we have been helped or comforted by the Word then we are able to pass that information on to others.
• Paul says in 2nd Corinthians ch 1 v.4 that God is the God of all comfort Who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we ma be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.  Herein we see the importance of each part of the body of Christ functioning in order to be built up by one another's faith  when we gather together, as instructed by Paul the apostle in his first letter to the Corinthian church.