Bee-Attitudes, Mourn

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Mourn= to feel or express sorrow or grief.

Blessed= to be fully satisfied.

Mourning is not complaining, grumbling, or whining

People mourn every day. How you mourn could control your outcome.

The children of Israel wondered in the wilderness for 40 years because they didn't mourn well. We have to becareful that we don't turn mourning into complaining. God is a big God he can take a little bit of your misguided hurt. After a while though we must turn the mourning to surrender. We must not stay there to long or we will get stuck there and never move forward and live out our purpose. I'm not making light of grief or mourning, I have did my fair share of it.

The mourning we really need to tap into is mourning over our sins.

Peter, Isaiah, and others grieved over their sin. Jeremiah wept over a nation.

Jesus wants us to mourn our sin and the version of ourselves that was once ruleed by the world. When we meet Jesus and receive the grace and forgiveness He offers, we will be revealed to just how sinful and broken we are and how desperately we need him.

Blessed ( fully satisfied) are those who experience this vulnerability because it will bring true the forgiveness and joy of christ.

Comforted, the Holy Ghost is our comforter, even in the darkest hours of our lives, when we are grieving He will comfort us.