Spiritual Mourning

Mat 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Who is this talking about when it says “they that mourn?” We are called to pray, weep, travail, and intercede for the sins of our nation, our leaders, our family, our friends, our neighbors, ect. We are a people who are called to prayer. We are called to mourn the sins of others. We are called to let the love of Christ flow through us, and make a difference. Gill’s Commentary puts it like this: Blessed are they that mourn,.... For sin, for their own sins; the sin of their nature, indwelling sin, which is always working in them, and is a continual grief of mind to them; the unbelief of their hearts, notwithstanding the many instances, declarations, promises, and discoveries of grace made unto them; their daily infirmities, and many sins of life, because they are committed against a God of love, grace, and mercy, grieve the Spirit, and dishonour the Gospel of Christ: who mourn also for the sins of others, for the sins of the world, the profaneness and wickedness that abound in it; and more especially for the sins of professors, by reason of which, the name of God, and ways of Christ, are evil spoken of: who likewise mourn under afflictions, spiritual ones, temptations, desertions, and declensions; temporal ones, their own, which they receive, either more immediately from the hand of God, or from men; such as they endure for the sake of Christ, and the profession of his Gospel; and who sympathize with others in their afflictions. These, how sorrowful and distressed soever they may appear, are blessed But where are the mourners? Where are intercessors? Where are the people God can count on to pray? I hear so many preachers today who claim we are not called to sadness. Be happy. Be blessed. Live under grace. But how can we, when our children are lost? How can we, when our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, and so many others, are not saved? I heard a preacher say one time, we should spiritually put our ears at the gates of hell, until we can weep for a lost humanity. Pray! Church of Jesus Christ, Pray harder than you ever have before. We are the called! Isaiah 61 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.