Day 7: 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.

To BE or NOT TO BE

a GOOD MOURNING?

This is one of the BEATITUDES

that I have BELIEVED wrong.

Of course I immediately thought about

MOURNING over a loss,

and actually I was right BELIEVING,

for JESUS is talking about MOURNING over a loss,

and a LOSS is part of yourself.

The part of yourself that HE is asking you for you give up.

 “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]".*

DEATH to the Adam and Eve part of us.

The apple part.

The bite of the forbidden fruit that birthed sin

into our DNA,

into every little bitty baby that is born.

A DNA that needs to be changed.

A RELEASE of your self.

REPENTANCE

is 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 your HEART.

 "... 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.

For when you are at the end of your rope

because you are doing life your own way,

you do have a CHOICE~

TO BE or NOT TO BE BROKEN

doing LIFE your way,

or to do

LIFE

GOD'S WAY.

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 became so close to me,

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 didn't GOD let go of JESUS

to become more than a little BABY

born into this world?

Oh CHRISTMAS IN JULY!

What if the first cry of the

BABY

in Bethlehem made possible your first cry

of REPENTANCE?

What if the reason

JESUS

was born was so that you could experience

a GOOD MOURNING?

For the BABY

wrapped in swaddling clothes would one day be wrapped

in burial cloths.

The cradle would lead to THE CROSS.

THE CROSS would lead to the EMPTY TOMB.

And THE EMPTY TOMB would make possible

a

NEW HEART.

A HEART that lets go of self,

so it can hold onto

JESUS.

That is the beauty of

GOOD MOURNING.

We MOURN

so that we may receive

HIS GRACE.

We surrender our lives,

so that we may receive

HIS MERCY.

We let go of ourselves,

so that we may live

in HIS TRUTH.

That is why we celebrate

CHRISTMAS IN JULY.

Because CHRISTMAS

was never just the birth of an ordinary

Baby.

It was the beginning

of GOD'S  rescue plan.

The arrival of GRACE.

The promise of MERCY.

The revelation of TRUTH.

The invitation to REPENT.

The gift of NEW LIFE.

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 CHRISTMAS IN JULY!

All because of

"THE POWER OF THE CROSS"

(listen to the song below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6LhbNTsDgo