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Last week, i noticed a very small whitehead–yes, a zit–on my forehead.

It was there for two days, and it was starting to annoy me. I kept trying to pop it, and I wasn’t having any luck.

So, while I was sitting at my desk, i took my fingernail and tried scratching the surface of it to get it to pop, or at least, closer to popping. And it worked! No more whitehead! YEAH!

And then, very soon, I look at myself in the mirror after going to the restroom at work, and realized I had a bigger problem–i scratched very deeply into my forehead, and now I had a 1″ long by 1/8″ wide mark right in the center of my forehead. Nice.

I was embarrassed by a little, tiny whitehead (which no one probably noticed), and instead, I had a large scab on my forehead for three days. Nice.

How often in our walk with God do we spend time trying to cover up some small little blemish in , only to look worse than ever when our sin becomes public. Wouldn’t it be so much better to just deal with the little blemish than try to cover it up and make a much bigger, much more noticeable mess?

Yeah, i wish i had just left that whitehead alone.

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