We have all experienced grief, sadness, and sorrow in our lives, and we usually do not associate those experiences with being blessed. Jesus is teaching his disciples that those who mourn over sin shall be comforted by God. It is sin and the evils that are in the world that brings emotional pain, spiritual loss, and a multitude of oppression that we all experience in life. The character of a disciple of Christ is one who grieves over sin and those who are lost in the world. Christians weep over sin and the evil that has been done to others, or sins that they have committed themselves and they confess it to God.
Sorrow over sin brings a powerful change of mind and draws one to God with an open heart to hear the good news of Jesus Christ. If you have known sorrow in this life due to sin, or you are experiencing grief right now, I want you to know that the Spirit of God is calling you right now to turn to Jesus. Jesus himself has promised you that you will be comforted.
There is nothing in this world that can comfort you like God can… “Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, The Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort where with we ourselves are comforted of God (2 Corinthians 1:3,4 KJV).
So here are the most important questions to ask… do you want to have true happiness? Do you grieve over your own sin?
Listen to what Paul said to the Corinthian Church, “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God. Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (11) And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV).
One cannot find happiness by conforming to the world standards of promoting and practicing sin.
Sin may be pleasurable for a time, but it ends in sorrow, shame, and death, “for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 6:23 KJV).
“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1 ESV).
If one truly wants to be comforted it must come through Jesus Christ, for he said, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you … But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things… Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid” (John 14:15-17; 14:26,27 ESV).
Please leave a comment and share how Godly sorrow has worked repentance in your life leading to salvation in Christ, Jesus and how the Holy Spirit has comforted you.
Copyright 2023 JL
Great blog