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18. MOURNING OVER WHAT GRIEVES CHRIST
The second Beautiful Attitude is: "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted" (Matthew 5:4).
We Christian men should know what it means to "Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep (mourn) with them that weep" (Romans 12:15). We should mourn over the things that our Savior, Christ Jesus mourns over as well as experience His comfort.
The question is: Do we mourn over the innocent blood that is shed in the abortion clinics of our nation? Do we mourn more for the Christians who are beheaded, raped, and burned alive by ISIS? Both shed innocent blood and both deserve to be mourned. We should also mourn over the unclean pornographic addictions, not only in the world, but also via the Internet in the church. We should mourn over the marriage break downs within the church.
There are many things we should mourn over before the Lord in prayer. May God save us from insensitive hearts towards the great need in the world right now. What about the precious souls in North Korea who greatly suffer at the hands of a brutal, communist regime? What about the Christians who suffer and are tortured in Islamic nations? What about the multiplied millions of souls who have never once heard the gospel? Do we mourn over the corruption of our government? Do we mourn over the killings in our streets?
Does Jesus weep and mourn for the fatherless and widows? What do we do? Much of the time we seek for more pleasure and hardly shed a tear before out great High Priest and Intercessor.
I think we desperately need our hearts to be softened so that we may feel something of the aching heart of Jesus Christ.
Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Should we not weep over our cities?
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
