The one whom you should hate

I was reading this reflection by Charles Spurgeon (I've been using this book called '365 days with Spurgeon') and i thought i'd share it with you guys, cos' it's interesting.

Reading: Matthew 7:1-5
"But are there not with you,even with you, sins against the Lord your God" 2 Chronicles 28:10

Tell him that his sins deserve the wrath of hell. Make him feel that it is an awful thing to fall into the hands of our God, for he is a consuming fire. Then throw him down on a bed of spikes, and make him sleep there if he can. Roll him on the spikes, and tell him that bad as he is, he is worse by nature than by practice. Make him feel that the leprosy lies deep within. Give him no rest. Treat him as cruelly as he could treat another. It would only be his deserts. But who is this that I am telling you to treat so? YOURSELF, my hearer, yourself. Be as severe as you can, but let the culprit be yourself. Put on wig, and sit upon the judgment seat. Read the king's commission. There is such a commission for you to be a judge. It says- JUDGE YOURSELF- though it says judge not others. Put on, I say, your robes; sit up there Lord Chief Justice of the Isle of Man, and then bring up the culprit. Make him stand at the bar. Accuse him; plead against him; condemn him. Say:"Take him away jailor." Find out the hardest punishment you can discover in the statute book, and believe that he deserves it all. Be as severe as ever you can on yourself, even to the putting on the black cap, and reading the sentence of death. When you have done this, you will be in a hopeful way for life, for he that condemns himself God absolves. He that stands self-convicted, may look to Christ hanging on the cross, and see himself hanging there, and see his sins for ever put away by the sacrifice of Jesus on the tree.

I think the passage says it clearly for both me and you...