Day 6: Good Mourning!

GOOD MOURNING!

Yup!

There is such a thing for

 MOURNING

to

BE

GOOD,

when you have a

BE~ATITUDE.

For JESUS did say,

“BLESSED,

 forgiven,

 refreshed by GOD'S grace

 are those who MOURN...".*

There it is.

The word MOURN.

To MOURN

 is associated with death,

that ugly word,

but that which is part of life,

that causes

MOURNING.

To MOURN~

To GRIEVE.

To have SORROW.

To say GOOD~BYE.

"BLESSED are those who MOURN"

This is one of the BEATITUDES

that I have BELIEVED wrong.

Of course I immediately thought about

MOURNING over a loss,

but never thinking that the

 LOSS

was myself,

in the act of

REPENTANCE~

 “Blessed [forgiven, refreshed by GOD'S grace]

 are those who MOURN

 [over their sins and repent],

 for they will be comforted [when the burden of sin is lifted]".*

REPENTANCE,

DEATH to the Adam and Eve part of us.

The apple part.

The bite of the forbidden fruit that birthed sin

into our DNA,

from the moment we let out our first cry as a baby.

REPENTANCE~

a RELEASE of your self,

the

births a

GOOD MOURNING.

A WHITE FLAG moment.

A

I NEED JESUS moment

that is

LIFE CHANGING,

because a

GOOD MOURNING

is a change of HEART

that changes you.

A BROKEN HEART

that needs

a HEART SURGEON.

A BROKEN HEART

over what BREAKS GOD'S HEART.

What BREAKS GOD'S HEART?

A HEART that is devoid of GOD.

A HEART that is not SURRENDERED to JESUS. 

JESUS,

who was born to die to rise

to GIFT everyone the opportunity

to SURRENDER,

to MOURN

over their own depravity.

To MOURN

is

to LET GO

so that

JESUS can do what only HE can do in our HEARTS.

 "... for they will be comforted [when the burden of sin is lifted]"*.

GOOD MOURNING brings COMFORT,

not only in the here and now,

but in ETERNITY

when the word MOURNING

will not be a word anymore~

 "And HE will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be death; there will no longer be sorrow and anguish, or crying, or pain; for the

former order of things has passed away”

(Revelation 21:4).

Oh to MOURN is real,

especially when a loved one has passed,

for there is a real BROKENNESS

that causes great grief and sorrow.

But there is

 the GOOD MOURNING

of

REPENTANCE

that also causes a BROKENNESS

in your SPIRIT.

A LIFE CHANGING BROKENNESS

when you 

LET GO.

Oh LETTING GO is hard to do,

especially when

LETTING GO of your self,

but BLESSED are you when you

LET GO~

“You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you.

Only then can you be embraced by the ONE most dear to you"*.

I still remember that moment when

 GOD got my attention,

that it was if I could hear HIS whisper,

asking me TO LET GO to HIM.

A scary moment,

for the uncertainty of

"who would I be"

without my being in control of doing life my way,

revealed my not wanting to LET GO.

And then I heard HIS words,

"You will be mine. I will take care of you".

Oh LETTING GO IS SWEET SURRENDER.

For GOD means what HE says and says what HE means.

To BE or NOT TO BE

MOURNING?

Hmm.

You decide.

 “Blessed,

forgiven, and refreshed by GOD'S grace

 are you, ____________________,

 who MOURN

 over your sins and repent,

 for you, _______________,

 they will be comforted

 when the burden of sin is lifted"*

*(Matthew 5:4, amp and msg versions).

Oh TO BE!

GOOD MOURNING!

"BLESSED,

forgiven, refreshed by GOD'S grace...

are you

because of

"THE POWER OF THE CROSS"

(listen to the song below)