Weep for A Dying Savior?
As we begin to prepare our hearts for Easter, I was struck deeply  by a quote Tim Challies posted by Spurgeon:
You need not w
eep because Christ died one-tenth so much as because your  sins rendered it necessary that He should die. You need not weep over  the crucifixion, but weep over your transgression, for your sins nailed  the Redeemer to the accursed tree. To weep over a dying Saviour is to  lament the remedy; it were wiser to bewail the disease. To weep over the  dying Saviour is to wet the surgeon's knife with tears; it were better  to bewail the spreading polyps which that knife must cut away. To weep  over the Lord Jesus as He goes to the cross is to weep over that which  is the subject of the highest joy that ever heaven and earth have known;  your tears are scarcely needed there; they are unnatural, but a deeper  wisdom will make you brush them all away and chant with joy His victory  over death and the grave. If we must continue our sad emotions, let us  lament that we should have broken the law which He thus painfully  vindicated; let us mourn that we should have incurred the penalty which  He even to the death was made to endure ... O brethren and sisters, this  is the reason why we souls weep: because we have broken the divine law  and rendered it impossible that we should be saved except Jesus Christ  should die.


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