Quiet Time Notes

Notes from my daily Quiet Times with God

First the Kingdom - Mourning Misunderstandings

December 26th, 2009
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Two extremes to mourning:

1. Mournful mourning

• Self-centered - woe-is-me
• We shield ourselves from God's grace
• Focused on our own unworthiness

2. Matter-of-fact mourning

• Qualifies as mourning because the mourner defines it as such
• Brokenness is missing
• God is looking for a broken and contrite heart - Psalms 51:17

The cross is the center point within the extremes

We will have to face the mourning someday - it is be now and God's way or it will be later and God's way

Are you postponing?

Are you ignoring?