To consider how dearly our sins cost Christ, may cause
tears to distill from our eyes. Christ is called the Rock (1 Cor. 10:4).
When his hands were pierced with nails, and the spear thrust in his side,
then was this Rock smitten, and there came out water and blood. And all this
Christ endured for us: "the Messiah shall be cut off—but not for himself"
(Dan. 9:26). We tasted the apple—and he drank the vinegar and gall. We
sinned in every faculty—and he bled in every vein! Can we look upon a
suffering Savior with dry eyes? Shall we not be sorry for those
sins—which made Christ a man of sorrow? Shall not our enormities, which drew
blood from Christ—draw tears from us? Shall we sport any more with sin and
so rake in Christ's wounds? Oh that by repentance we could crucify our sins
afresh! The Jews said to Pilate, "If you let this man go, you are not
Caesar's friend" (John 19:12). Likewise, if we let our sins go and do not
crucify them—we are not Christ's friends.
Consider how much our sins cost Christ!
From Thomas Watson:
