Red Letters

5:3 Beatitudes
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”

“Those who mourn” can be interpreted to mean grieving, defeated people who come to the Comforter, those who are sorry for their lives of sin and come penitent to the Comforter, or those who mourn for the state of the world and allow the things that break the heart of their Comforter to break theirs.

All of these interpretations are correct in a certain way. The first is obviously true since God’s tender touch can heal broken or grieving hearts. The second is true because those who are sincerely sorry and come to God receive His forgiveness and are comforted by Him when He removes their sin farther than the East is from the West and prompts them to let it go as well. The third is true only in a non-temporal sense. Those who mourn along with the broken heart of God will not be relieved of their griefs until they are released from this mournful world.