Blessed are Those Who Weep
Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. (Luke 6:21b)
In this continuation of the Beatitudes, Jesus has already covered the circumstance (blessed are you who are poor), the need (blessed are you who are hungry), and now He addresses the emotional – Blessed are you who weep now. In all these, Jesus speaks to the spiritual using the physical.
In using the word weep, this doesn’t just mean to cry. This word in the Greek means to wail with grief – like think snot nose ugly crying – over something that has pained you tremendously. When we see sin for what it is, especially in light of…
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