How sad is RELIGION without Christ! For many years I had just enough religion to make me miserable. Now I know Jesus as my Savior; and, having Him, I am indeed happy. I wonder what your religion does for you, dear friend?
A man I had met several times had always a gloomy countenance. Upon one occasion I said to him: "Nat many years ago I had enough religion to make me miserable, but not enough to make me happy! How is it with you?”
"That is my case exactly," he answered, startled into the confession by my own former experience being so like his own.
Another time, soon after my conversion, a friend came to see me. Clasping me in her arms, she exclaimed: "Something has taken ten years from your face since I last saw you!”
"Oh," I replied, "the years from my face are as nothing to the burden the Lord Jesus has taken from my heart.”
Did you know that your face is at times an index of the condition of your heart? Many countenances show traces of the burden "grievous to be borne" upon the heart. I feel keenest sympathy for them. Others, though furrowed and wrinkled with age, have borne a bright and glowing testimony to the inner "peace that passeth understanding.”
Friend, is the burden of sins still unforgiven weighing upon your heart? Or do you know Him, "Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree"? The Apostle adds, "By whose stripes ye were healed.”
Whatever your past experience has been, accept the Savior now, and in future you will have enough "religion" to make you happy in all conditions, and under all circumstances.