Godly Men Weep

 Godly Men Weep

"And he went out and wept bitterly" (Matthew 26:75).

We cannot have too low an opinion of ourselves; or too high an opinion of Christ.

Godly men weep over the evils which are found in themselves, such as error, ignorance, prejudice, pride, self-righteousness, worldliness, levity, unloving tempers and dispositions, censoriousness, envy, sinful anger, hatred, a proneness to remember wrongs to indulge complaints, to forget mercies.

There is no plague like the plague of an evil heart!

There is no misery like the wretchedness of conscious vileness.

There are no sighs so long and so deep-down as those caused by indwelling sin. Though the righteous shall not weep always, yet they may weep bitterly.

What a wretched man I am!" (Romans 7:24).

"I abhor myself" (Job 42:6).

"Behold, I am vile!" (Job 40:4).

"Woe is me! For I am undone!" (Isaiah 6:5).

"Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord! (Luke 5:8).

~William Plumer~