January 12, 2018 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Mourning Your Way into Heaven

You do not hear much about “mourning”. I think most people think it is being sorry for your sin, that is not totally correct—not your sin but someone else’s sin.

Mourn: to express or feel grief or sorrow, especially for someone who has died. To express public grief for a death by conventional signs as sorrow, bewail, crying and wearing black. (American Heritage Dictionary)

Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted. (Gospel of Matthew 5:4)

How can one be blessed when in mourning? Someone has died and you are crying over the loss. God’s ways seem so strange to me at times. Ezekiel (9:4) reminds me of Revelation. The people who have the mark of God on their foreheads (not the mark of the beast/Satan) are protected. But God makes a requirement for the Children of God who are indeed set apart, protected and serve Jesus Christ.

Just being saved does not get you into this heavenly club of God. God asks us to “mourn” and it is in the act of mourning over the sins, wickedness, and iniquities that people do, we find the favor and protection of the Father.

Some Christians tend to judge everything and everyone while others cry out to the Father to have mercy. They say, “God their sin is great and your judgment on them is just but won’t you show compassion because they are blind, ignorant, and captivated by their sin?”

Jesus found himself in this same exact place in the Garden of Gethsemane before His crucifixion. Jesus was praying not for himself but for us who were without forgiveness and bound by our sin. We did not believe in God or willing to serve Him. We were lost!

I challenge you to mourn for those that are lost and live only to commit more sin. The only way we can make it through the last days and God’s judgment on the earth is to mourn. It is in the process of mourning that God redeems us and makes us complete in Him. Want to be truly saved, then be sorry not just for your sins but the sins of others.

This is what Jesus was talking about when he said, “Pick up your cross daily and follow Him.” Yes, I am standing in the gap for others. I am carrying their sin to the Cross of Christ as Jesus carried my sin. I choose to mourn for others who cannot mourn for themselves. I love as God loves us and Jesus is my example. I mourn!

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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