Yesterday

NO, my child, I cannot go with you today. If you had asked me yesterday I might have managed it. "The large, dark eyes of the little three-year-old son were gravely earnest as he asked in reply:
“Father, where is yesterday?”
Willingly would he have recalled it, that he might claim his loving father for the wished-for treat; but—"Where is yesterday?”
Ah for how brief a moment was it today, in our keeping; and yet each moment it was slipping from our grasp to join that past eternity, which is "still in God's keeping.”
Have a care how you tread today. Every step will tell on the sands of time. Have a care how you speak—aye, how you think, how you act, today. It will also be "yesterday" very, very soon—gone from you forever, but carrying with it eternal consequences, all to be brought back again and made a living present reality when the Lord comes and brings to light the hidden things of darkness and makes manifest the counsels of the heart.
“Today, if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts," or how regretfully may you have to look back to a yesterday that you can never again make your own, in the which He called and you refused.

Bible Class Outline
ETERNAL LIFE.
THE Lord came from heaven to this earth in order to bestow it
“I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10:10)
Life is obtained by gift.
"I give unto them eternal life." (John 10:28.) "The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Rom. 6:23.)
The life is given to such as believe.
"God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16.) "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life." (John 3:36.).
It is possessed by such, as believe.
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life." (John 5:24.) "He that hath the Son hath life." (1 John 5:12.)
Such as have not life are under the wrath of God.
"He that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." (John 3:36.) "He that hath not the Son of God hath not life." (r John. v. 12.)
Such as have life are eternally secure.
"They shall never perish." (John 10:28.) "Shall not come into condemnation." (John 5:24.)
It is God's will that these realities should be known by Christ's people.
"These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." (1 John 5:13.)