More Than a Conqueror Devotional #8

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted – Matthew 5:4
February 9, 2010

The Lord continues his teaching from the mountain top by describing the next blessed attitude that will bring about holy living. There is a blessing in loss. There is a blessing in the feeling of emptiness. The Lord is not able to fill us unless we are first empty. Loss brings about a necessary emptiness that our Lord and Savior than uses to fill us; “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost” (Romans 15:13). If the God of hope is going to fill us with joy and peace we must first be empty. The emptiness or feeling of loss that Christ refers to here is not simply the mourning that comes with death, but it is the loss of something very dear to us, something that we might look to for strength, something or someone we might depend on. For many of us it could be a loved one, a spouse or best-friend; however it could also be our careers, our cars, our positions or in some cases even our afflictions. The Lord says we are blessed when we lose the things that are most dear to us because than He can take the position of being that which is most dear.

We are more than conquerors today because we are blessed when we develop a mentality of emptiness. Christ says that we are blessed when we experience loss because than we will be comforted. How much more of a blessing would it be if we did not have to actually lose something, but rather adopted a mentality of loss or emptiness so that Christ could always fill us. “Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves” (Proverbs 7:18). We are truly blessed when our attitude is so blessed that we adopt a philosophy of mourning thereby allowing the Holy Spirit to constantly comfort us. Christ does not like to see his people in pain; however the Lord knows that the feeling of loss and emptiness makes room for him to enter into our hearts. Beloved disciple of the Most High, the Lord wishes to fill your heart today, therefore empty yourself and pour all your cares on the altar of peace so that love may fill your temple.