Blessed are they that mourn!

Matthew 5:4 “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.”

When I look at the Beatitudes I see them as being written to the saved and not the lost; just as when I see the entire word of God, I also see it being written to the saved and not the lost. However there are others who see both as being written to the lost and saved, however the issue I have with their theory is; God has one message to the lost and that is to repent and believe on Jesus Christ or else go the eternal hell. Here God has no message to the lost; it is a message to the first church and only to her membership and future Christians. This is what makes the Beatitudes so special to every Christian that reads them. Here the Lord says “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” The word mourned means - The feeling or the act of grieving – therefore it requires us to believe it is speaking about an act; with that act of grieving being over sin. This is the way I see it; if a person has been saved then sin is the last thing they want to do; however it is something we all do. With this thought in mind we must gather from this verse that the Christian, while grieving over the sin in their life must understand that comfort will come and that comfort is that the blood of Jesus Christ will forgive all our sins and not just the past or present. And beloved this delivers to us all a great comfort. However our greatest mourning of all is living a life from a daily presence of being with our Saviour Jesus Christ. Mourning for the Christian could come in many areas, it could come in death, it could come falling away from the church, or falling into apostasy, but this is the very bottom-line fact; there is comfort in our time of mourning and that comfort is only found in Jesus Christ. Isaiah 30:18 - 19 "And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. (19.) For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee." Indeed those who trust in Jesus Christ there should be no mourning; but in this flesh dwelleth no good thing Romans 7:18 Therefore we do mourn just as we worry, and as we do so many things in life that shows the weakness of our flesh; however we also know even if we do, comfort is right here with us in Jesus Christ. We learn in Job 14:22 "But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn." As long as we are in these bodies pain and misery is assured however on day when we shall shed these bodies sin will no longer mourn us. Job knew a thing or two about pain and mourning in this flesh but he also knew about the comfort of the Lord and beloved we too should have that same comfort. We truly see a great example of this in Micah chapter 7 where the prophet speaks about the great effect of sin "The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net." Micah 7:2 and then the comforting of the Lord “He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.” Micah 7:19. Beloved our comfort will be the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, when we shall sin no more, when no more tears will dim the eyes, yes beloved there is comfort in our time of mourning but we must look in the right place and He resides in your heart if you are saved.