Blessed Are Those That Mourn

Grieve not oe'r loved ones that have breathed their last,
For they had their chance to choose death or bliss;
Mourn for those who into the fire are cast,
And who yet live but who heaven will miss!
Shed tears when Jesus is preached but unheard;
When the unsaved enter church but leave lost;
When prayer's banned; Jesus in public demurred;
When newsprint censors God and Christ's cross!
The greatest grief's legal abortion mills,
And Democrats who their nation betray,
Trading borrowed billions to bribe votes on bills;
Or President who lies to get his way!
Christians mourn most when heaven's Kingdom ails;
They will be comforted when Christ prevails!

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted." (Matthew 5:4)

Jesus might have phrased this Beatitude, "Blessed are those who mourn for the Kindom of Heaven, for they will be comforted." Most people think of mourning in connection with the death on this earth of a loved one, and they may interpret this saying of Jesus as being comforted for grieving over the death of a spouse or child. If so, they are assuming Jesus has the same limited worldview that people have. But God does not mourn over human death; to Him this life is but a prelude to the eternal afterlife that follows human life. When God looks at a mortal person, He sees one of two things only---whether that person is saved or lost. If he is saved, God is happy, and He expects all Christians to be happy at his death; He doesn't grieve when a saved person dies; He is joyful in welcoming him to heaven. However, when a lost person dies, He grieves, for as the universal judge, God must condemn him to hell for eternity. He expects Christians to mourn the death of a lost person, and He promises to comfort such a one when he arrives in heaven.

Later in His ministry Jesus answers the question of a scholar who asks if He knows the most important commandment. His answer was, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." (Matthew 22:37) Therefore, a Christian is expected to love God more than anything or anybody; if he mourns anything, it should be, e. g., how Jesus was treated so badly at His crucifiction; or how many lost people are in the world; or how God is ignored by so many; or how our nation is being ripped from its founding as a Christian nation; or how the Democrat Senators in Washington accepted millions of dollars of borrowed money for their home states in exchange for voting for a terribly destructive Health Care Reform bill this week. All these and many more, such as abortion, same-sex marriage, how print media censors the name of Jesus and Christianity but are enamored of diversity and publishes Muslim and other non-Christian stories and holidays. How can our nation take "Christmas" out of the December 25th holiday and substitute "Happy Holidays"?

As with all the Beatitudes, the reward for those who mourn for the pesecution of Chistianity and hatred toward God will be admission to heaven upon human death and new life everlasting. In Revelation 21:4 we are told that God will wipe every tear from our eyes in heaven. There will be no mourning or pain; we will somehow be comforted for the loved ones who are missing, who didn't make it into heaven.