The console those who mourn
"Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted" (Matthew 5:4)
We arrive in Zion passing through the "valley of crying. "
You might think that sorrow and be blessed to do two things are opposed to each other, but the infinitely wise our Savior Jesus Christ has put them both in this bliss.
What God has joined together let no man put asunder. Click
sorrow for sin (our own sins and also elsewhere) is the seal of God placed on His faithful.
When the Spirit of grace is poured over the house of David, or any other house, then I will mourn. By means of a saint
condolences receive the best of blessings, just as the rarest convenience we are assigned by the water.
not only those who mourn are blessed in the future, but Jesus Christ declares that they are blessed already. The Holy Spirit will comfort
certainly those hearts that mourn for sin.
be comforted by the application of the virtue of the Precious Blood of Jesus and through the purifying work of the Holy Spirit.
In the same way that sin abounds in their city and their age will be comforted by the certainty that God will glorify Himself, whilst there are also many men who rebel against His authority.
be comforted by the expectation of when they become fully liberated from the shadow of sin and are threatening to dwell eternally caught up in the glorious presence of their Lord,
CH Spurgeon
Adapted from "Christianity Today" 1993
Evangelical Church Sinta 
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