When we think church, we probably picture worship music, inspiring Bible teaching, and being with other Christians. For most of us, mourning wouldn't be on the top of our list.

Aside from funerals, we don’t typically experience mourning in church. In fact, just the opposite. Celebration is at the core of our biggest days of the year. At Christmas, we celebrate Jesus’ birth, and at Easter, we celebrate his victory over death.

So when Jesus says, “blessed are those who mourn,” we don’t always know how to take that. We experience all sorts of loss and grief in life, but what Jesus is talking about here goes beyond natural grief.

Learning how to mourn and lament probably isn’t a topic that most of us would be excited to learn about, but Jesus includes it in his sermon about kingdom values for a reason. As we’ll explore in this message, there’s something about mourning that is unavoidable in a life that is honest and humble before God.

You can read the Beatitudes Matthew 5:1-12, and this message, we’ll focus on verse 4.