' “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.'
Matthew 5:4 ESV
'No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.'
Romans 8:37-39 ESV
I once saw a testimony where a man, losing his mother, felt lost and disillusioned with religion and thusly his life, and he felt alone and like his life had no direction. It was this frustration that took him on a spiritual journey across many faiths and creeds. He studied many philosophies and dabbled in many religions when, eventually, he came to Christianity and the Bible. He said, in his testimony, that it was the above beatitude that struck him.
“Blessed I was for mourning, and that I would be comforted,” he said. “No other god had said that.”
This Beatitude from the fifth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel is one that rightfully stands out, as it differs in that it is not only a spiritual promise. But that is its beauty. It is a promise that transcends strict religious connotation or words like what might be found in other faiths. It is alive; it is a promise that, no matter how dark the world gets, we will always have comfort in Jesus Christ—comfort in the promise that nothing can hurt us, for everything that stands against us shall fail.
Regarding the young man mentioned previously, it was the idea that it’s OK to mourn, and that in mourning God responds with comfort. It’s not some dogma that emotions are bad, or that he needs to be stronger, or that some cosmic force had condemned him... He wandered down many paths, but it was only when he met Jesus that he realized that he didn’t have to be strong, because His strength was all he needed.