Comfort, For Those That Mourn

Good Morning!! Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.(Matthew 5:4) Remember the tax collector in Jesus' parable? (Luke 18:9-14). He could not even look up to heaven, the burden of his own sin and guilt weighed so heavily on him. He smote his own breast and cried "God be merciful to me, the sinner." This man, Jesus said, went to his home justified before God.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart,...these, O God, You will not despise.—Psalm 51:17 (NKJV)

True spiritual grief,...is God,...not man centered. People often "mourn" for their mistakes, but only because they are caught in a crime, or suffer themselves, or see loved ones suffer. But all sin (not just "big" sins) should cause the penitent heart to mourn, knowing that it grieves and dishonors God. True spiritual mourning, also leads to true spiritual repentance,...a turning away from the old way of life and to the way of Christ.(2 Corinthians 7:10) Mourning that is only outward, and temporary, will not be comforted. 

 

In Christ, we find forgiveness, healing,...and the power to overcome sin.

 

Blessed be they, indeed who mourn for their sin,...because ultimately, they will be comforted, when they are removed from even the very presence of sin,...in heaven. Amen.

 

If we engage with fools, we run the risk of becoming as foolish as they are."