LW Baptist Church

Jesus said, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Similarly, the Irish poet Thomas Moore wrote, “Come ye disconsolate, where’re ye languish/Come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel/Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish/Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

Grief is the sorrow people feel and express when they have experienced loss. The loss may be of persons or position or power or possessions. For example, Jesus expressed grief at the tomb of Lazarus his friend. Contrary to common thinking, the grief Jesus speaks of when he says “blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted,” is sorrow because life should not be this way.

That is where the hope of heaven comes in, and that is why they are blessed who sorrow, because they will receive the comfort of God in his presence, if they have grieved with hearts of faith in his promise to put away sin and sorrow and death and crying and pain and tears for all time through the atoning work and resurrection of his son the Lord Jesus Christ.

LW Baptist meets for worship to study God’s comfort on Sunday, Sept. 21, at 10 a.m. in Clubhouse 4.