TWO things I want you to remember. Each of them has its own lesson for us. You and I have got what are called besetting sins. To these sins we are especially prone, and into the commission of them we most easily fall. If we do not watch and pray against them they will, little by little, get such a firm hold upon us that they will keep us from fully following the Lord Jesus Christ. We shall be like a flower which is tied up so tightly that it cannot turn itself to the sun’s rays. It is sad and unhealthy, and so our souls will be sad and unhealthy also. None of the “joy of the Lord” will fill them. And instead of doing good to others, we shall do harm: to get a bad name is an easy matter. For a lost character there is no happiness, no security, and hope is well-nigh dead. “Who loses his good name, with what can he support himself in the future?” asks an old writer. Let us be careful therefore about what we may call “little sins.”