rd to buy me one. I would wrap up a stick or
something and carry it around for my doll. So this doll attracted me
very much. As I looked at it, I wanted it so very much.

Before I tell more about this incident let us read a Scripture in the
Bible which tells us about being tempted to sin. In James 1:14,15, it
brings out how it works. "But every man [woman or child] is tempted,
when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath
conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth
forth death." Let us see what the word tempted means. _Tempt_ means "to
induce; entice; allure." The devil works through us to tempt us. First,
we are tempted by our own lust. Lust means an "overmastering desire."
_Entice_ means to "attract by offering hope of reward or pleasure." So
we see that the devil will induce us to do wrong by placing an
overmastering desire for something, which he convinces us will bring a
reward or some pleasure.

Note the next verse says, that when this lust or desire for a certain
thing is _conceived_, which means "formed in the mind," or it is decided
by the person that he is going to do a certain thing that is wrong, then
that brings forth sin. Now sin is finished [completed] when the act is
committed. After the act is committed then it brings forth death to the
soul. In other words, sin separates a person from God. That means
spiritual death. If a person continues to live in sin, or in spiritual
death, and then dies a physical death, he would be eternally separated
from God. But thank God, this need not be. The key to being restored to
God is found in God's Word. Since sin has to be punished, we find that
Jesus, the Son of God, was willing to come here, live and die and arise
from the grave so we can have forgiveness for our sins, as we, with
godly sorrow, seek for it.

Now I will continue with the incident in my own young life. First, I
want to say that from a child I loved the Lord and my parents taught me
what sin was and I didn't want to displease the Lord. But I was not
above temptations. So when I saw this little doll, I was tempted by the
devil. I had an overmastering desire to have that doll and I was enticed
by the hope of the reward of having it for my own and thought no one
would know about it. So quickly I picked it up and took it home. You
see, when I let lust, or that overmastering desire, become conceived, or
formed, in my mind, and I took the doll, I commi