“ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” What virtue is there in mourning that it should commend a person to God? Mourning seems like such a selfish act. Mourning is all about the sorrow experienced by the mourner; it is self-directed. There's nothing wrong with that. Mourning is the first stage of healing. People need to mourn, but where is the blessedness in doing so?
God is touched by the act mourning. We are designed with the capability to mourn and cursed with the necessity of it. God cares about our sorrows. However, the weight of blessedness rests in the object of our mourning; not in the act itself. What you mourn the loss of is vitally important.
Have you lost a loved one; your home; your job? God cares. All of these are traumatic losses. Behind all of these is a greater loss. We have lost the divine fellowship for which we were created. Sin has separated us from God and is behind every loss we suffer. There is no comfort from the pain of life apart from God. Without God we stumble from loss to loss until even life is lost to us.
We are the cause of our own suffering, but we are also the cure. That is, God has provided a cure; a means of reconciliation with Him. We have only to apply the balm to the wound. In salvation, there is comfort for the losses inflicted upon us by sin. They who mourn the effects of sin will be comforted with new life.
The world will not become a peaceful garden again because a man ceases to sin. The world will continue to suffer the effects of sin. The difference is that he who mourns for the sorrow inflicted by sin will be comforted in the midst of the devastation and heartache that spins around him.
“ This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. “
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