Mourning is a universal human experience usually involving loss: the loss of a family member or friend through death, the loss of a job, the loss of health, the loss of some earthly possession, or the loss of a relationship. The world does not connect mourning with blessing. “Mourning is something terrible, while a blessing is something very good.” From the world's perspective mourning and blessing couldn't be more contrary to one another. The world says, “Blessed are they that laugh and are merry.” Then here comes Jesus who turns the perception of the world on its head and pounds the world's head against the ground when He says, “Blessed are they that mourn.” The world blesses those who think they are rich in spirit and have much of their own goodness to offer God. Jesus, on the other hand, blesses the poor in spirit who beat their chest and know they have nothing good to offer God that He will accept, and fall upon His mercy to save them. How much more diametrically opposed could two worldviews be? False religions are just concerned with the outward man (like the Jewish leaders at the time of Christ). But biblical Christianity is the work of God's Spirit inwardly as well as outwardly as we see in these beatitudes.
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