This is the very knife that cut the throat of your child! – Thomas Brooks

Suppose a man should come to his dinner table, and there should be a knife laid down, and it should be told him, “This is the very knife that cut the throat of your child!” If the man would use this knife as a common knife, would not everyone say, “Surely this man had but very little love to his child, who can use this bloody knife as a common knife!”

Just so, when you meet with any temptation to sin, oh, then say, “This is the very knife which cut the throat of Jesus, and pierced His sides! This very knife was the cause of His sufferings, and made Christ to be a curse!” Ah, how should Christians look upon sin as that accursed thing, which made Christ a curse and accordingly to abhor it! Oh, with what detestation should every Christian fling away his sins! Sin, you have slain my Lord and poured out His heart’s blood! You have been the only cause of the death of my Savior!

Look upon the cross on which Christ was crucified, and the pains He suffered thereon and the seeming sweetness which is in sin, will quickly vanish. When you are solicited to sin, cast your eye upon Christ’s cross; remember His astonishing sufferings for your sin, and sin will soon grow distasteful to your soul. How can sin not be hateful to us if we seriously consider how hurtful it was to Jesus Christ?