Moment of Meditation: Mourn (Matthew 5:4)

Blessed are those who mourn,
for they shall be comforted.
(Matthew 5:4)

Mourn

We don't like to mourn. In only the last couple of years, Slayton has lost several well-loved individuals. Their families still mourn their loss. How can Jesus call them blessed?

St. Paul picks up on this theme as he writes to the congregation in Thessalonica (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18):

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Amen.