Friday November 10, 2023
Matthew 5:4
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”
Those who mourn are just as blessed whether they mourn during or after their conversion. Even you who have been given an insight into the mystery of the Gospel, that God justifies the ungodly, even you often feel sad, yes, restless and anxious. Your daily life is to you a daily sorrow. You experience defeat more than victory. Your sins of omission are more numerous than those of commission. Your heart is the worst of all. It is worse than all your words and acts put together.
And like so many other children of God you think that this constant grief and restlessness is dangerous. You are afraid that there is something wrong with your relationship to God, that you are deceiving yourself. You think that if you were really a child of God, the condition of your heart would not be what it is. But in this, fortunately, you are mistaken. “Blessed are they that mourn,” Jesus says.
For sorrow works repentance. Also in you. And this is the work of God. If He is to succeed in preserving and furthering that life which He has created within you, then He must work in you daily repentance toward your sins. This He does through sorrow.
But am I converted, some ask.
The surest indication that you not only were converted once upon a time but that you are living today the life of a converted soul with God is precisely this mourning for God. That mourning which never finds peace in sin but which goes to God with everything, great and small.
You are blessed, Jesus says. He says even more: you shall be comforted. God will comfort you. That is what He has already done. What else has He really done but comfort your sorrowing soul? Also today He comforts you.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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