The Importance of To-Day.—We live in to-day. We have no sure guarantee of the morrow. Yesterday's victories will not win to-day's battles. Yesterday's defeats need not countervail to-day's victories. For our victory is in Christ Jesus, and He is "the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever." If we suffer defeat, it is because we have left Him out of the question. If we are discouraged, it is because we have trusted in our own strength and failed. In some way we have forgotten the Master, or turned our back upon Him. Repeated defeat means repeated ignoring of Christ Jesus, and throws us into discouragement and confusion, till we fail to recognize the voice or the steps of the Master. Take Him with you to-day. Remember the past only by its Ebenezers. Forget the defeats in the present victory. You can never judge of to-day's temptations and battles by yesterday's. "Ye have not passed this way heretofore." The devil has many temptations and many different ways of presenting them. Our only safety is trusting Christ now as our wisdom, our righteousness, our sanctification, our redemption. Without this we may expect defeat. With such trust, we may be assured of daily victory.