“Blessed Are All They That Mourn”
One is not an heir of heavenly approbation who simply spends his or her days mourning. There are, however, certain kinds of mourning which are commanded and thus commanded. Those who mourn for their sins- and more important, who, like Nephi, mourn because of their fallen nature (see 2 Nephi 4:17-35)- and subsequently turn to Christ with full purpose of heart come to know the comfort and peace of forgiveness. The Saints who mourn with those that mourn- and who thus fulfill their covenantal obligations (see Mosiah 18:8-9)- shall in time gain eternal life. Those who mourn because of the cost of Christian discipleship, who face the challenges of a cynical and skeptical world head on, who “suffer his cross and bear the shame of the world” (Jacob 1:8), shall eventually find rest with him who mourned as none other has in time or in eternity.
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