LORD, Help Me Tear My Idols, And Worship YOU Alone.

View HIM yonder!
(Charles Spurgeon, "The Sweet Uses of Adversity")

"They will look on ME, the one they have 
pierced, and they will mourn for HIM as 
one mourns for an only child, and grieve 
bitterly for HIM as one grieves for 
a firstborn son!" Zechariah 12:10

View HIM yonder, sinner, sweating 

in the garden. See the ruby drops of 

blood as they fall from that dear visage!

Oh, see HIM sinner, see HIM 

in Pilate's hall. View the streams 

of gore as they gush from those 

lacerated shoulders!

See HIM, sinner--

see HIM on HIS cross! 

View that holy head still marked with 

the wounds with which the thorns 

pierced HIS sacred temples!

Oh, view that pure face, 

emaciated and marred!

See the vile spittle still hanging there--

the spittle of cruel mockers!

View those loving eyes floating 

in tears with languid pity!

Look, too, at those kind hands, 

and view them as they stream 

like fountains of blood!

Oh, stand and listen while HE cries, 

"My GOD, My GOD, why have 
YOU forsaken ME?" Matthew 27:46

"A bleeding SAVIOR I have viewed--
and now I hate my sins!" John Newton

"The dearest idol I have known,
 Whatever that idol be,
 Help me to tear it from its throne,
 And worship only THEE"

   
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You may want to read the whole of Spurgeon's sermon, 
"The Sweet Uses of Adversity".