Our Text:

Matthew 5:4 (New King James Version)

4 Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.

When Jesus began to understand the Law and the prophets as a young boy, He began to mourn. Mourning in this sense in this scripture verse is to be able to see the injustice in the society that you are in.

Let me illustrate.

In Sydney, Australia where I live, there is an infamous suburb called Kings Cross. That suburb is the place where all the street walking prostitutes ply their trade. In the main street of that suburb there are four places that are strip clubs and brothels combined. The men come in and watch young strippers and when they are in a position that they can be tempted, they are asked if they want to come upstairs for sexual relations. All of the prostitutes that work in these clubs are heroin and cocaine addicts and the club not only takes 50% of the money that they make as a prostitute in their premises, but they also sell the drugs that they use. One third of the clients that come to these workers take a twenty minute booking and buy drugs from the prostitute to have their very first shot of heroin with a needle. Not only are the prostitutes using many thousands of dollars worth of drugs themselves, but they are introducing people to a new drug habit.

Now mourning is knowing all these prostitutes are slaves to their trade through their addictions. You mourn when you know the fact that the clubs that they are working for sell all the heroin and the police force in that suburb know it is going on and support it by taking bribes. The new officers make a pretence of stopping small time drug dealers while the higher ups allow massive amounts of heroin and cocaine to be dealt by the clubs.

Mourning comes from knowing that young boys and girls from about 15 years of age arrive in Kings Cross from all around Australia and within half an hour they are taken to private clubs for prostitution. Knowing that members of the police force, the judicial system and any other person who has good connections can hire these youngsters for sex makes me cry. The police know that this happens also and they do nothing about it.

Mourning is knowing about something that is wrong and an injustice being done and not having the power to do anything about it. The only place that you can get comfort for this is in the arms of Jesus.

As a young prophet of the Lord in training, I see the prosperity doctrine of lies being taught in churches, on television and in books and people caught up in the idolatry and the covetous lifestyles that it promotes going to hell and I am not big enough to stop it all on a world stage.

To mourn is to know what is right https://dorganicchems.com/ see something very wrong being done instead. When this happens to you and you cry, the arms of the Lord and the peace of the Lord is your comfort.

Knowing that at least seven of the parables of Jesus teach that you can go to hell as a Christian and this fact is not taught in churches makes a person mourn. Knowing that many people in the church are unrepentant sinners ending up in hell makes me mourn. The mourning could drive you into massive depression if you did not spend time in prayer and in the presence of the Lord Jesus.

Look at this passage, a prophecy of who Jesus would be in Isaiah the Old Testament prophet.

Isaiah 53:3-4 (New King James Version)

3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.

Jesus was a man of sorrows. He cried a lot. Although scripture only records Him crying twice, this scripture said he was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. There is a special sort of suffering when you can see injustice being done and you cannot do anything about it. Jesus used to get comforted every morning as He poured His heart out to the Father.

Therefore, blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Are you mourning today for something?