Jesus was talking about the human spirit when He said, Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
What does it mean to mourn? To mourn is to have a grieving of your spirit. It is synonymous with having an overwhelming desire for God.
Why do we mourn? Is Jesus speaking about those who bury a loved one, and then go home to look across an empty room and mourn and weep? No! for God and time itself give comforting and healing.
The mourning Jesus spoke of is that overwhelming quality in our spirit that God wants to be there. It is a grieving of spirit, an overwhelming desire for God. It is a different mourning which is deep in the human spirit.
There is a joy and a rejoicing and a faith with which God is pleased, yet when He anticipates so much that is to come forth in us, He does not look upon our inadequacy, but our mourning over it.
He sees us mourning because of our limitations of knowing Him and walking with Him.
We know there could be something better. We desire to know Him, to walk with Him more completely.
We come into that deep, deep mourning over our limitations. He looks upon our hearts and sees us mourn because we are so limited in the way we have believed Him and appropriated His promises.
We mourn because we are limited in the flow of love and the ministry that we can give to people. We desire to see something far beyond what we have been able to give.
Sometimes we mourn in the spirit for our slowness of heart to believe all that God has said and because of the slowness and the delay to our perfection.
We are like those of the eighth chapter of Romans: …even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, to wit the redemption of our body—knowing that all creation is groaning and in travail, waiting for us, waiting for that manifestation of the male and female sons of God so that it can be loosed from its vanity and futility.
We mourn deeply when we see a brother’s or a sister’s hostility and those invisible walls that shut out the blessing of the Lord from them.
We mourn for those that have no ears to hear. We feel the word of God with its burning fire within our bones, and we speak it, and for those who have no ears to hear it we mourn.
We mourn for our sin, and even more we mourn for our fears that we cannot trust Him more.
We mourn for those times when we have looked to ourselves and found our own inadequacy instead of looking to Him to help us.
The Word of God tells us something so important: Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
This mourning is a reaction of a beautiful spirit toward God, but when resentment comes up, hostility and a judging spirit, that is not the spirit the Lord is talking about.
He is speaking of the mourning of that spirit which is filled with love. … thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth I Corinthians 13:5, 6.
When it hears that a brother or sister has been overtaken in a trespass, it does not rejoice or judge, it mourns.
I am not as concerned about what sin a member falls into as I am concerned about what Paul said over the brother who had sinned: “you have not rather mourned” (I Corinthians 5).
It is such a same, that this brother had to be set outside of Christ for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus! It was so unnecessary, if there had only been a church to mourn for him.
A new day is opening up to us to move forward, to come into a tremendous experience, not of soul searching, but of spirit purifying.
The remnant will go through a baptism of spiritual fire. God will sit and judge, refining all the sons of Levi as silver is refined in the fire, and then shall they offer unto the Lord a pure offering as in the days of old (Malachi 3:3, 4).
For our worship to be pure, our spirits must be refined and made pure. Is it in your spirit to cry unto the Lord, “O Lord, purify me; take the things out of my spirit that are wrong. Then you will be comforted.
Within us is a deep grieving of spirit, a silent mourning of heart, and if we could only voice it, a loud wail and a cry would fill the whole earth and go up to heaven itself, saying, “O God, loose Your servants. Comfort those of us who mourn.
For the prophecy was written in Isaiah 61 that God would comfort all those that mourn in Zion and give us beauty for ashes.” Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Set yourself to pray and seek the Lord if you want this quality of mourning in your spirit.
It will keep you from the failures, mistakes, and limitations that we have lived in.
For the seed of every failure is in the human spirit, not in the flesh. It is the flesh that gives it an occasion, but if it were not in your spirit, you could not fall.
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. II Corinthians 7:1. That perfect deliverance is ours.
God is going to help us come into the purifying of our spirit. Cry unto the Lord to be poor in spirit, and mourn, until we come into a purity of spirit.
God grant that this word will be effective in your life from this moment forward, whether it be just a little grieving of heart or the depth of mourning before the Lord. Let it be a reality in your spirit, because we are coming to Mount Zion in our daily life and to the spirits of just men made perfect.