There is almost nothing better when you are ten years old than to have your best friend over for the night and have a good, rowdy pillow fight! Mark was delighted when his mother said, “All right, Danny can spend the night, but you'd better behave!”
It wasn't long after supper until the two boys were having fun throwing pillows back and forth in Mark's bedroom. The pillow fight soon moved out of Mark's room and led from one room to another... until the boys found themselves in Mark's sister's room. The door had a sign on it which said, "MARY JANE'S ROOM," with another sign below that which said, "KEEP OUT," but it was too late for the boys to pay much attention to the second sign.
This is the way it is with sin—sometimes we get carried away doing something which may not be wrong in itself, but it may lead us into a place where we don't belong. The Bible tells us that, "A prudent [wise] man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple [unwise] pass on, and are punished." Prov. 27:12.
Mary Jane's room was pink and ruffley. There were white shelves on the walls which were full of trinkets—little glass animals and other souvenirs she had collected. "Junk!" her brother called them.
The pillow fight raged on, and Danny threw one at Mark, who ducked. The pillow sailed right toward one of those pretty white shelves and knocked down a glass elephant. The boys stopped and stared. The elephant had broken into three pieces! "Oh, no!" said Mark, "now we're really in for it!”
But wait... Danny had an idea. He had heard that nail polish was good to use to stick things together if you were out of glue, and there was a bottle of nail polish right there on Mary Jane's desk. This sounded like a good idea to Mark, so they put the three broken pieces together with nail polish.
Once the little glass elephant was back in one piece, the boys realized that they had made a mistake— the elephant was white and the nail polish they had used was pink! Now Mary Jane would know for sure! Mark knew they would have to explain what had happened and tell her they were sorry it had happened. And that is just what they did. Mary Jane did not stay mad for very long.
As Christians, we know from God's Word, the Bible, that it never pays to try to cover up our sins, for God sees everything and we cannot hide our wrong doings from Him. However, if we confess our sins He is always ready to forgive us. It is much better to be honest and admit when we have done something wrong.
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9.