Living a blessed life

Deal with sorrow or it can turn into anger and bitterness

Do you want to live a blessed life? It’s a life that’s free from past regrets, free from present fears, and a life that’s filled with hope for a better future.

If the blessed life is for you then Jesus gave us some great advice on how to obtain this level of living in Matthew Chapter 5.

What I would like to focus on today is what Jesus said in verse 4. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”

He’s saying that we can be blessed if we would learn how to properly deal with and get over painful things that come our way. Mourning is the grief or the sadness and hurt that we feel when we have lost something.

The most common time that people mourn would be over the death of a loved one. How long we mourn or how short we mourn is up to the one that’s grieving.

There are times in life when we can handle a loss better than at other times and the value of what we lost can determine the length of time we grieve.

Mourning is a process where we work through the pain and turn the whole thing over to God. We have to spiritually let go and let God carry the load. We don’t understand why certain things have happened and we may never understand but we do know that God is good and He is greater than what we are presently going through.

There can be great blessings even after we have experienced great loss. I have felt in the past that things were going to go in a certain direction and then suddenly everything went sideways. I was disappointed and I had to grieve my loss and I had to trust that God would work something out that would be better.

What about you? How do you feel over a loss? Has your loss robbed you of your joy and has it left you filled with sorrow? Sorrow you don’t deal with can turn into anger and bitterness and living the blessed life will escape you.

The quicker we can turn things over to God, the quicker we will recover. I would like to say that living for God makes everything perfect. If I said that it wouldn’t be true.

Living for God doesn’t make any of us immune from loss, we all know what it is to suffer and grieve.

Personal suffering is guaranteed but personal recovery is a choice. Will I grieve my losses forever or will I give them over to God? Will I allow the Lord to fight my battles and repay those that hurt me or will I hold on to my problems until someone pays me back for my loss?

Having that knot in the pit of your stomach is something that we all have felt. Getting hurt in life is not a choice it’s a fact. We all get hurt but the problem is we don’t all get better.

Jesus said the difference is not in who’s been hurt but it’s in who has properly taken the time to mourn. Who has learned that it’s better to give it to God than it is to carry it yourself.

1 Peter 1:7 “casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”

Your ability to reach forward into a brighter sunny day will be found in your willingness to let go of the rainclouds of yesterday. You can’t keep pulling up a painful past and hope to pull in a blessed future.

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