Blessed Are Those Who Mourn- For They Will Be Comforted

            Ministry is simply is us loving like Jesus.  It is the Beatitudes manifest through your life.  Missions are when you have the love of God so that He can demonstrate His very life and nature through you.  Missions are intended to be the Sermon on the Mount played out on Earth.  The Beatitudes are God’s recipe for revival and for His Kingdom to come and His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.  What does God mean by blessed are those who mourn?  As missionaries we are called to comfort those who mourn- to love the broken until they understand God’s love (a love that never dies) through us.  Ministry is as simple as that- just loving the person in front of us.  Stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.  Often we want the kingdom to look like the multitudes to make our church grow and make us look good.  But the kingdom really looks like one smiling child at a time until nations are full of people who are passionate lovers of God.  There is suffering all over the world.  We can use our suffering to become more like Jesus, or we can let bitterness fester inside our hearts.  The mystery of God’s mercy is that somehow He allows us to understand the pain of others so that we become more like Jesus in our compassion.  He can even use suffering because He knows how to turn everything around for good- if only we let him.  “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”  2 Corinthians 1:3-4