Mourning

Mat 5:2  And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying

 

Mat 5:4  Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

 

Psa 69:29  But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

 

Psa 126:5  They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Psa 126:6  He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

 

Isa 61:2  To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

Isa 61:3  To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

 

Joh 16:20  Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

Joh 16:21  A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Joh 16:22  And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

 

2Co 1:4  Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

2Co 1:5  For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

2Co 1:6  And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

2Co 1:7  And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

 

2Co 7:9  Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

2Co 7:10  For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

 

Rev 7:14  And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Rev 7:15  Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

Rev 7:16  They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

Rev 7:17  For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

 

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Mat 5:4  Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

 

We are taught that as Christ followers we will mourn.

How can we not mourn?

Godly sorrow works repentance to salvation.

Suffering brings forth mourning- partakers of the suffering we will also partake of the consoling.

Now we have sorrow, but we will see our Savior and then we will have joy that NO MAN can take from us.

 

So why do we tend to believe we are slipping further from Christ when we mourn? Satan would have us believe that we are to be happy- to have that happy emotion because if we don't then we are not trusting in our God for all things. Satan LOVES EMOTIONS because he's so masterfully warped them, twisted them along with our thinking so that we are led to DESPAIR, so we are led past all hope.  Satan would have our sorrow consume us so that we forget about the HOPE we have in CHRIST. We truly may suffer horrifically here and now, we may mourn here and now constantly, but in that suffering, in that mourning we do have HOPE that one day all the suffering and mourning will be taken away forever by our Savior.

 

We can mourn and still have hope.

We can suffer and still have hope.

 

We are blessed when we mourn because we SHALL be comforted.

 

We have this Blessed HOPE.

 

We must learn what our Savior is teaching us, this is a LIFE lesson.  This is a lesson we need to learn and hold fast to the rest of our lives. 

 

By the grace of God may we LEARN the lessons our SAVIOR has to teach us!

 

All through HIS LOVE!