“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4
It’s not fashionable or cool to mourn. You would think with all the death on the news, on television and the movies, it would be quite real to us. The opposite seems to be true. All those “pictures” of death numb us to it’s reality. We hear about thousands dead in Japan and it’s really just numbers. And it isn’t just death. We numb ourselves to any kind of pain or worry. Depression is a disease; but sorrow is part of life. We live in a world where children go to bed hungry. Christians are tormented for their faith. And millions die without Jesus.
Jesus was a man of sorrows. He saw the sin around Him, and it broke His heart. In Matthew 23:34-39 we read how Jesus’ heart ached for Jerusalem and the destruction sin had wrought in the hearts of men. We live in an increasingly lost world; many are dying without Jesus. That should make us mourn.
The truly sad thing about our reluctance to mourn is that it robs us of true comfort. We can’t really feel comforted, if we haven’t mourned. Joy is nothing; if we have never known sadness.
It is a sorrowful world we live in; but Joy is coming. His name is Jesus. We will appreciate His return all the more; if we allow ourselves to feel what this world is like now, without His ruling presence.
Feel true sorrow and be blessed by the comfort of Joy.
Nick
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