Psalm 119:53

My soul, do you feel this holy shuddering at the sins of others? For otherwise you lack inward holiness. David's cheeks were wet with rivers of waters because of prevailing unholiness, Jeremiah desired eyes like fountains that he might lament the iniquities of Israel, and Lot was vexed with the wicked conduct of the men of Sodom.

Those upon whom the mark was set in Ezekiel's vision were those who sighed and cried for the abominations of Jerusalem. It cannot but grieve gracious souls to see what pains men take to go to hell. They know the evil of sin experientially, and they are alarmed to see others flying like moths into its blaze.

Sin makes the righteous shudder because it violates a holy law, which it is to every person's highest interest to keep; it pulls down the pillars of the commonwealth. Sin in others horrifies a believer because it reminds him of the baseness of his own heart. When he sees a transgressor, he cries with the saint mentioned by Bernard, "He fell today, and I may fall tomorrow." Sin to a believer is horrible because it crucified the Savior; he sees in every iniquity the nails and spear.

How can a saved soul behold that cursed kill-Christ sin without abhorrence? Say, my heart, do you truly join in all this? It is an awful thing to insult God to His face. The good God deserves better treatment, the great God claims it, and the just God will have it, or repay His adversary to his face.

An awakened heart trembles at the audacity of sin and stands alarmed at the contemplation of its punishment. How monstrous a thing is rebellion! How dreadful a doom is prepared for the ungodly! My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest you come to smile at sin itself. It is your enemy and your Lord's enemy. View it with detestation, for only so can you evidence the possession of holiness, without which no man can see the Lord.