Blessed Are Those Who Mourn, For They Will Be Comforted
Abide In My Love
MATHEW 5:3-5
“”Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.”
Matthew 5:3-5 NKJV
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Jesus sermon began with words that contradict each other. But God’s way of living usually contradicts the worlds (see my post of 23rd Feb for more about the beatitudes).
We all face sorrow and pain, and we all mourn for someone in our life time. But Jesus, tells us that we are blessed for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
This life is temporary and the day is fast approaching when “God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.””
Revelation 21:4 NKJV
This is the confident hope of every believer, that all our suffering shall pass away; that God’s promise of salvation is not just for one’s self, but is passed onto our children, “For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.””
Acts 2:39 NKJV
To be poor in spirit is to recognise one’s need for God and a spiritual posture of humility and recognition that all good things come from God above (JAMES 1:17).
My beloved, because of sin, death and mourning are a painful reality to all, but God is faithful to not only comfort us through the pain, but also strengthen us and give us a confident hope of an eternal future where death and mourning shall be no more.
God knows how difficult life can be, the challenges we face, and how painful it is to lose a loved one. But God not only comforts us through such trauma, He strengthens us; Isaiah told us, “Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’”
Isaiah 41:10 NKJV
Blessed are the meek, those who put others above themselves , those who have a heart to forgive and remain silent without complaint when wronged, those who love even their enemies, who care about others needs as they do their own.
Jesus way of life is grounded in selfless love, and all the Laws and the Prophets hang on the two greatest of all commandments, to love your God with all your heart, your soul, and with all your mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself (MATHEW 22:37-40).
To put others needs above one’s own goes against the nature of man, but this is Jesus way and the example to follow.
He put the needs of all others above His own, paying the debt of the world with His own blood, even though He never sinned (1 PETER 2:22-24).
Jesus said, ““As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. These things I command you, that you love one another.”
John 15:9-17 NKJV
My beloved, “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:31-39 NKJV
Truly I tell you again and again, ““Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.”
Jeremiah 17:7-8 NKJV
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
