Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are those who Mourn for they shall be comforted.

It is because of the first Beatitude that we can really mourn, the emphasis on this verse is that we Mourn the things God Mourns when someone dies we mourn the loss of something we had, something precious. Death is what we normally associate with Mourning and it is the one thing God mourns more than anything, that sin has resulted in death and mourning. We mourn the condition of man and the pending future judgement but not like God does because he gave his son to create the possibility for escape death and live for- ever, but it would be impossible for us to Mourn as God does without being poor in Spirit

John Flavel a Puritan preacher from the 1688 says in a message on Romans 8:28-32

He spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all; how shall he not with him freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32

John Flaval

How is it imaginable that God should withhold, after this, spirituals or temporal from his people? How shall he not call them effectually, justify them freely, sanctify them thoroughly, and glorify them eternally? How shall he not clothe them, feed them, protect and deliver them? Surely if he would not spare his own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that ever he should, after this, deny or withhold from his people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them.

Those who mourn will be comforted because God will take away the mourning, he helps us now by comforting us when we lose something precious but the deepest comfort to us who believe is that of our eternal reward when everything is revealed to us. Now we only see in part but then we will see fully.