Sermon on the Mount; the 2nd blessing:
Matt5 v4 - Blessed are those who mourn,
for they shall be comforted.See also Luke 6v21 parallel to Matt 5v4. This is the 2nd blessing in Matt but the 3rd blessing in Luke.
Earlier part of Luke 6v21 spoke of the 2nd blessing in Luke which is the 4th blessing in Matt.
This is one the textual proof that the naration of Christ is not in stringent chronological order. They record facts rather than timing. Their sense of history is not what we have in our modern times.
It is not just laughters that are blessed. They are already provided for.
Christ cared to mention mourning as God is seeing suffering as well as happiness.
Jehovah-Jireh. For the almighty will see to it and provide for all situation.
There is hope in all sorts of sufferings for Christ. There is the care of God for those who are in crashing difficulties. God is not too far to save, but has planned something more than consolation for His people.
Suffering is not beyond God.
It is a blessing to be comforted.
How glad are those who are actually comforted by God. For God really show them - that He cares - for them!
People are taught first, so that the day will not overtake them by surprise.
Our hope is in heaven, being with God.
Do you feel a need of God? Would you like to repent from sin and be comforted?
Do you feel sorry for your wickedness and mourn for the destruction you caused, and mourn for your distancing God, who so love you, and long for building a caring relationship with you?
And God will come to you; accepted your repentance, and received you.
You are not too far off to be saved by His almighty hand. Today, you can receive Him and be in His Paradice with Him. Would you like that?
Would you feel for others?
Would you mourn for the mis-happenings of others? Do you care to make a difference?
Do you really care? Well, God cares! So much that He came to experience life with us; and tell us the hope we may look for in Him.Trust and obey. That is faith.
Christ does not teach that there is any other way.
Comforted, and repented.
No turning back to the old ways. No looking back.
Even Jesus cried for the lack of faith in the hearts of His beloved. He is the ressurection and the life. Yet people mourned for the dead before their Lord who overcomes death. They were overwhelmed by death and failed to see ressurection so very near them.
Jesus knew the horror of death; and yet He did not cry or wept for His own persecution. he did not even make a sound, crying out for His own pain; all so caring about getting the command of the Father done.
He breathed His relief with His last breathe, not forgetting to tell His creation that His redemption is done. Done right there at the time almost 2,000 years ago.
Though many do not understand that victory is completely won at that time and worry too much of their affliction at the present, Christ cried for their sorrow. He saw the morning when many only contemplating the night.
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