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I'm Jensen Holt McNair. A good friend of mine had a small dog growing up and everyone in his family loved this dog.

One day though he came into his room to find a large party-sized bag of M&M's completely empty.

Now, these particular M&M's were not supposed to be in his room.

His mom had asked him to put them up in the pantry, but he hadn't and he

had really wanted to eat them in his room. Unfortunately, he had left them

somewhere that their beloved family dog could get to and he realized that his small dog had ingested an entire bag of chocolate

M&M's. And so he did what any kid would do. He hid the bag of M&M's and kept his mouth shut so his mom wouldn't get mad at him for

disobeying her. But as we know, chocolate is poisonous to dogs. And the next day, when their

dog was showing signs of serious illness,

he finally confessed what he had done,

and they were able to rush the dog to the vet and get him sorted out before the worst happened.

See, when my friend saw that bag of M&M's, he made a choice, and because he didn't realize just how deadly chocolate could be to a dog, he chose to cover up and hide his disobedience rather than confess it to his mom.

He hid his mistake and because he did, the problem got much, much worse.

Now I can't help but see myself in this story, but instead of a dog and some chocolate,

I think about the ways that I try to cover up my mistakes, hide my sin from God, from the people around me.

And instead of this being the brilliant idea that I think it is, harboring that sin doesn't

make it go away. It just gives it a front row seat to eat away at my

heart. When I don't realize what's at stake, I'd rather hide my sin, wish it away,

then pull it out, confess it, and deal with it.

Maybe you've experienced this dilemma before too.

You've felt that tug to just cover up mistakes.

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