Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
It’s backward from current wisdom, but it’s the words of Jesus: “Blessed [happy] are those who mourn” (Matt. 5:4, NIV). Why and how can people who are sad be so truly happy?
It’s not only old people who “mourn.” There are also young people who swim upstream against the current and dare to think soberly. They are not relaxed at the giddy parties; they are burdened with the reality of the world. They may not know the reason for their sobriety, but they are unconsciously aware that we are living in the solemn time of earth’s history known as the great Day of Atonement when God Himself is on trial before the universe and its fate is in the balance. Will the leader of the Great Rebellion win the final battle of the “great controversy”? Even teens can see that a mysterious evil is permeating our world.
But that’s old news; what’s disturbing are its all too visible inroads into the “body of Christ,” His church. Thoughtful youth are perturbed. They can’t help it; they’re sober.
We heard a pastor declare recently that raucous, uncontrollable laughter is a sign that one has received the Holy Spirit. Well, here’s a different idea: “It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools. Like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of fools” (Eccl. 7:5, 6). God made us so we can laugh; but the reason truly happy people can be so sober is that they are uncomfortably aware that a false and counterfeit “holy spirit” is enveloping the world and seeking to capture the church. It’s the most lethal danger the church faces during these 2000 years since Christ established it. He is concerned; so should we be concerned. Blessed are those who mourn with Him—positively. He is at work; so should we be.
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