The knife which killed her husband!(Thomas Watson, "The Ten Commandments")The Lord's Supper is the looking-glass in which we see Him whom our souls love; it is the chariot by which we are carried up to Christ. God has appointed the Lord's Supper to cheer and revive our sad hearts. When we look on our sinswe have cause to mourn; but when we see Christ's blood shed for our sinswe rejoice! In the Lord's Supper our spiritual needs are supplied, our strength is renewed; there we meet with Christand He says to us, "All I have is yours! My love is yours, to pity you! My mercy is yours, to save you!" Christ's blood is the key which opens heavenelse we had all been shut out!The end of the Lord's Supper, is to work in us an endeared love to Christ. When Christ bleeds for us, well may we say, "Behold how He loved us!" That is a heart of stonewhich Christ's love will not melt!Another end of the Lord's Supper is the mortifying of corruption. To see Christ crucified for usis a means to crucify sin in us. How can a wife endure to see the knife which killed her husband! How can we endurethose sinswhich made Christ veil His glory and shed His blood! Sin has rent the white robe of Christ's flesh, and dyed it of a crimson color. The thoughts of this should make us seek to be avenged on our sins!
_________________R.Chandrasekaran