Blessed Are Those who Mourn Matthew 5:4
Hello World in Focus International (WIFI subscribers), family and friends… I rejoice in the Lord on today just knowing how good God is and knowing deep in my heart that God don’t make mistakes like man.
In reality, death is hard to accept, but through Jesus Christ and leaning on him we can see the beauty of it all…. I do realize on today
that we are just pilgrims and strangers passing through this very land… This is a great place here on earth that God created it to work out our soul salvation, but he told us in his word in the book of John 14:1-4 – 1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in Goda; trust
also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going.”
In Genesis 23, we see Abraham mourns for Sarah. Jacob, in a sense, erroneously mourns on account of the death of his son Joseph—he is not dead, but he rightly mourns at least his loss. The Egyptians mourned for Jacob at the time of his death, and David in 2 Samuel 1 mourned greatly over the death of Saul and his beloved friend, Saul’s son, Jonathan. We see mourning throughout the Bible on the occasion of death, but not only death. For example, when Absalom is responsible for murder and flees from Israel to escape any possible consequences, David mourns his absence.
In Numbers 14:39, when the Israelites come to Kadesh-Barnea and fail to go in and possess the land, they are told that that generation will die and will not enter into the land, and the people mourned; they mourned the loss of the benefits of the blessings that were literally within their grasp and were lost. They mourned deeply. You remember the outcome of that mourning was not good because they then tried to go into the land and were defeated.
In Psalm 119:136, you find the psalmist mourning over the sins of God’s people. He says, “Tears stream down from my eyes, because they do not keep Your law.” Hosea 4:3 tells us that the land mourns because of Israel’s sin and because of the consequences that have come upon the land as a result of that. There are countless examples, and there is a transition in the Scriptures from the beginning in Genesis, where the mourning is focused on the loss of one who is loved (mourning that comes as a result of death), to mourning that has a more direct relationship to sin and its consequences. Let’s make an effort to come to some kind of definition by looking at some of the essential elements of mourning.
I realize on yesterday that “Mourning” is an normal emotional response.
Through it all, I still smile because
God is the head of my life….
Kirk Franklin– “I Smile”
“I want you to have ~JOY~
can’t nobody take that from you….”
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