Question 1:

What does this beatitude tell you about the heart of God?
That He is an empathic God. He has love for his children in the same way as we have love for our children, except of course most of our children have not been traitors to us. God's amazing ability to forgive us is one thing, but to comfort us as well...

Study

It is one thing to be spiritually poor and acknowledge it, as the first beatitude says; it is another thing to grieve and mourn over it. In more theological language, confession is one thing, contrition is another. One might almost translate the second beatitude "Happy and the unhappy" in order to draw attention to the startling paradox it contains.
"Blessed are those who morune for they will be comforted." (Matthew 5:4)
It is plain from the context that those Jesus promised comfort are not primarily those who mourn the loss of a loved one, but those who mourn the loss of their innocence, their righteousness, their self-respect. It is not the sorrow of bereavement to which Christ refers, but the sorrow of repentance.

Section 2: Repenting of Our Sins - Matthew 5:4; Romans 7:21-25

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Open Discussion:

When is a time when you feel you have mourned for (That is, grieved or felt sorrow over) something or someone

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Summary

The indispensable condition of receiving the kingdom of God is to acknowledge our spiritual poverty. To the poor in spirit, and only to the poor in spirit, the kingdom of God is given. For God's rule which brings salvation is a gift as absolutely free as it is utterly undeserved.