Be-attitude #2

If we use the word picture of a ladder, then the beatitudes or be-attitudes, would work like this. The top of the ladder, the goal, is to be "characterized by the attitudes of God." In other words, people should look at our lives and think, "wow, they are the spitting image of their (heavenly) Daddy." So that is the top. The bottom rung on the ladder is "blessed are the poor in spirit" because the first step is admitting "I am a sinner and I have nothing to offer a Holy God that makes me worthy of forgiveness."
The second rung from the floor is "blessed are those who mourn." The issue that we are to be mourning over is our sinful condition. This is the attitude that causes us to be increasingly grief stricken and intolerant of our sinful nature. As we become more and more like Christ, we become more and more aware of how bad our flesh is. I want to attend the funeral of my selfish sinful ways, mourn that I ever thought that way, acted that way, believed those lies. I love righteousness and I really really don't like sinfulness. It makes me cry.
God, please forgive me for my sin. I justify and rationalize all sorts of things that I know are wrong. I don't want that to be true of me any longer. I want the darkness of my sinfulness to be drown out by Your brilliance.
Next step - humility.