“HAVE YE SOME more religion like our Betty’s?” So asked a laboring man who had come to the gospel mission. His wife had been saved a few months before, and the grace of God had made such a difference in her heart, life, and home, that he wanted the same “religion” as she possessed.
When Betty had told him the good news the first night she was saved, and that she had hoped to be a better wife from then on, he grunted out, “All right; I’ll watch and see.”
Her husband kept his word and watched, and this is what he saw. First, a gradual but very marked increase in tidiness in Betty’s person, and a new expression of peace and gentleness in her face made her a much pleasanter wife to look at.
Then followed a very energetic house-cleaning which brought the brightness and orderliness into the home that made it very attractive.
They had no children and Betty, without any motherly cares, had fallen into the bad habit of gossiping. But now Tom always found her home on his return with a pleasant word of welcome, and the meals neatly set out for him. Then to top it all, one cold night he came home and found his slippers warming for him before the fire.
Tom was a man of slow speech, and thus far had said little. But the next Sunday when Betty was putting on her hat before starting out to the evening gospel service, to her great surprise Tom came to her and said, “I’m going with thee tonight, Betty.”
No more words were said, but they walked in company and Betty joined in the singing with a full heart, prang and praising.
Tom, however, was getting very restless, and she began to fear that he thought the service was long and that he would be going out before it was over. But when the last prayer had been offered up, Tom got up from his seat with a very different purpose. The preacher that night had invited any whose hearts the Lord had touched to go to the front and without a moment’s hesitation Tom started up the aisle.
The preacher was greatly startled by Tom’s first words: “I say, sir, have ye some more religion like our Betty’s?”
Now it was not mere religion that had changed Betty’s life. Betty had found out what a sinner she was, and had opened her heart to the Saviour. She experienced what it is to be “born again,” and to be washed in the precious blood of Christ. When the heart is cleansed from sin, the Lord Jesus comes to dwell there. What a holy Guest! What a wonderful Friend Jesus is. The Bible says to one who is saved, “Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you.” 1 Cor. 6:1919What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (1 Corinthians 6:19).
Thank God, Betty’s Saviour was waiting to be Tom’s Saviour too.
He is waiting to be yours also. Do not you wait to change your life bore coming to Him. Come to Him at once where you are, right NOW! Tell Him you too want to be saved and cleansed from your sins, and He will not turn you away. Not only will He save your precious soul, but He will change your life too.
ML-11/24/1963