Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets, MAT 22:37-40.

True love is not found in emotions. True love is not contained in excitement or thrill. True love is demonstrated by a desire to please the loved One. When we truly love the Lord, we keep His commandments of love. The commandment of love is found in what it means to love God above all. We must desire with our whole heart to do that which is pleasing to Him.

What does it mean to love our neighbor as ourselves? We must prefer our neighbor before ourselves. This is always giving your neighbor the benefit of the doubt. Upon these two commandments hang all the law and the gospel.

The first four of the Ten Commandments are the commandments of love under the first table of the law. They are about loving God above all. The next six commandments are the law of love to your neighbor. They say to not covet, steal, or do anything against your neighbor. That is the commandment of love in the second table of the law. Cf. ROM 13:8-10.

Do we understand what it means to love God? Do we mourn every time we have broken His law? Does it cause us to mourn that we are displeasing Him in so many ways? We desire after the inner man to obey His law, but we come so short.

This is not with a desire to merit heaven because Christ purchased it with His blood. We mourn over sin because we have sinned against such love by every violation of His commandments. Sin is the transgression of that law of love. 1JO 3:4 says, "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." Any violation of that law of love is sin.

The mourners who are blessed mourn over those sins against the law of love. You should mourn when you sin against your neighbor as well as when you sin against God. If you have broken the commandment under the second table of the law, you have sinned against God. If you have sinned against your neighbor, you have transgressed the commandment of God. You are just as liable before God for this sin as if you had transgressed any one of His other commandments.

ROM 2:4 says, "Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?" If we understand God’s displeasure upon sin and how He would rather give His own Son to pay the penalty of sin than leave one sin unpunished, won't we mourn when we see that we have sinned against such love? Shouldn't we mourn when we see we have sinned against His love and goodness?

This verse says, "...not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?" We should come to a change of mind and become sorry for our sins. We should repent with a true, evangelical repentance.

We should NOT repent only because of the consequences of sin which will send us to hell, but because we have sinned against the goodness of God. This should draw us near unto the Lord. We will repent, be sorry, and mourn over what we have done against the goodness of God.

There is a difference between original sin and actual sin. Original sin is that which we have inherited through our fathers from Adam. Our actual sins are the sins, which we commit personally.

Those blessed mourners, as David, mourn over actual sins. 2SA 12:7-9 says, "And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man…Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon."

David’s actual sin caused him to mourn. He had actually committed a sin against his neighbor. In so doing, he broke the commandment of the Lord. When we commit a sin against our neighbor, we are committing a sin against the Lord. David committed a sin against Uriah the Hittite.

David mourned over his actual sin. He repented of his sin. 2SA 12:13 says, "And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD...." There is such a difference between David and King Saul. King Saul had sinned, but he was only concerned with the consequences of sin to his own honor. David confessed his sin.

If we understand what true mourning is, then we have much grief over our actual sins. If we have sinned against our neighbor, if we are in our right place before the Lord, we must ask the Lord for His forgiveness. Then we must ask our neighbor for his forgiveness.