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Are you mourning?


                   “Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.”
        Matt. 5:4

      Are your mourning? What does that mean?  Those that mourn are in mourning for many reasons. They mourn for the word when they are in the darkness of sin. They mourn for the sins that mar their own lives (James 1:12-15). They mourn for loved ones and family outside of Christ (Luke 8:21). They mourn for the slain that have fallen in the encounter of Satan (Gal. 6:1). They mourn the sorrows and bereavements common to all men. O what a blessing that promise of comfort truly is. 
  
     We may mourn the tribulation that comes from being a Christian (2 Tim. 3:12). That tribulation results in patience, character, and hope (Rom. 5:1-5). We mourn chastening for it can be painful. Yet It yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness (Heb. 12:11).  Our godly sorrow guides us to repentance that leads to salvation (2 Cor. 7:10). That sorrow that leads to salvation is not be regretted. Salvation is what comforts such sorrow.  On the on the hand worldly sorrow, that has no comfort, leads to death.  

Are you mourning?

Do you know why?

Have you stopped mourning or being comforted by God?

What do you need to mature in to change that?

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