Mourning
Mourning is the sorrow and grief people experience over death, sin, loss, or suffering. In Scripture, mourning may express lament before God and can also lead to repentance, comfort, and hope in him.
At a Glance
Mourning is the sorrow and grief people experience over death, sin, loss, or suffering. In Scripture, mourning may express lament before God and can also lead to repentance, comfort, and hope in him.
Description
Mourning in Scripture is the human response of grief, sorrow, and lament in the face of death, suffering, judgment, loss, or sin. It may be expressed privately or publicly through tears, lament, fasting, prayer, or other signs of grief. The Bible presents such mourning as a fitting response to life in a fallen world and, when directed to God in faith, as a context for repentance, dependence, and comfort rather than unbelief. Jesus blesses those who mourn, and the New Testament teaches that Christians grieve with hope because of the resurrection. Scripture also looks ahead to the day when God will finally remove sorrow and mourning in the new creation.