"You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy," John 16:20.
The kingdom of heaven recognizes mourning, sorrow, weeping, unbearable sadness resulting from earth's struggles. Life in the sky kingdom, in the kingdom of God and of his Christ, acknowledges hardships of this world's kingdoms. It confesses the sad results of willfulness and rebellion, and the consequent sufferings of innocents. In God's kingdom, his subjects are not denied mourning. Indeed, they mourn for tragedies. For sin, for its consequences. The sky kingdom receives mourners. The church of which Jesus is Lord does not pretend happiness from the world's national actions. Yet. Yet. Yet. Jesus promises in his kingdom mourners will find comfort. They that sow in tears will reap in joy.
So. We lament together with a brother or sister. Today. And hope. Today. And anticipate tomorrow, in God's tomorrow, a joy to knock our socks off. And we give thanks to Jesus, the man of sorrows, who, for the joy set before him, endured the cross. For his beloved congregation.
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