The Monkey and The Juggler
In a mango orchard outside a village there lived a mischievous monkey. The whole day, he would jump from one tree to another. Thus the monkey kept on eating the ripe mangoes. The orchard-keeper tried to trap the monkey. But every time the monkey escaped the trap.
One day, the monkey wandered out to the nearby town. “The town people are so busy. There is so much crowd here," the monkey thought. Soon the monkey was sneaking into houses and running away with eatables. By evening, he had made life difficult for the town people. “The town is more fun than the orchard. I will live here," he thought.
Days went by and the monkey was looked upon by the town people with terror. “Here he comes again," they screamed when they saw the monkey.
One day, a juggler came to the town. The people of the town approached him. “We want you to help us get rid of that mischievous monkey," they said to the juggler. The juggler said in return, “Do not worry. Get me some jars with narrow necks,"
When the jars of the size were brought to him, he put peanuts into the jars and placed them out on a field.
The monkey became curious when he saw the jars. When he went and peeped inside the jars, he saw peanuts. “Yummy! Let me quickly grab the peanuts and run," he thought. He put his hand inside the jar and grabbed a big handful.
But he could not pull out his clenched fist, as the neck of the jar was so narrow. If the monkey dropped some peanuts back into the jar, he could have pulled his hand out. But he was greedy. So he did not drop some peanuts into the jar.
The town people trapped the monkey with his hand inside the jar. They got hold of the rope and tied him in a post. Then the monkey was sold to a zoo. That was the end of the greedy monkey.
Question? Are you holding on to something that you will not let go of, that is keeping you from experiencing all of God's potential for you? Same question goes for me also. We can hold on to things that we believe that will fulfil us, but in the aftermath of it all, they will end up hurting us. For an example, one may try to have an extra marriage affair, but end up losing his or her whole family.
Or perhaps you wanted to be the master of your own life, so you get into the life of drug addiction and alcoholism, only to find that you now a slave to these addictions.
Maybe you are a workaholic, trying to give your family the best of everything, but you are totally missing out with what their needs really are. They just need you to be a husband and a dad.
Maybe as a man you are hook on porn, and your wife wonders if you still love her the same way when you two first met or has she just become a sexual object to you?
I believe that even Christians can find their hands stuck in the "jars" from time to time. These peanuts can look tempting. We all get tempted to do something that we shouldn't. But we need to remember, the peanuts in the jars was only a lure to trap the monkey. Satan wants to lure us in a trap as well.
PepperJack
In a mango orchard outside a village there lived a mischievous monkey. The whole day, he would jump from one tree to another. Thus the monkey kept on eating the ripe mangoes. The orchard-keeper tried to trap the monkey. But every time the monkey escaped the trap.
One day, the monkey wandered out to the nearby town. “The town people are so busy. There is so much crowd here," the monkey thought. Soon the monkey was sneaking into houses and running away with eatables. By evening, he had made life difficult for the town people. “The town is more fun than the orchard. I will live here," he thought.
Days went by and the monkey was looked upon by the town people with terror. “Here he comes again," they screamed when they saw the monkey.
One day, a juggler came to the town. The people of the town approached him. “We want you to help us get rid of that mischievous monkey," they said to the juggler. The juggler said in return, “Do not worry. Get me some jars with narrow necks,"
When the jars of the size were brought to him, he put peanuts into the jars and placed them out on a field.
The monkey became curious when he saw the jars. When he went and peeped inside the jars, he saw peanuts. “Yummy! Let me quickly grab the peanuts and run," he thought. He put his hand inside the jar and grabbed a big handful.
But he could not pull out his clenched fist, as the neck of the jar was so narrow. If the monkey dropped some peanuts back into the jar, he could have pulled his hand out. But he was greedy. So he did not drop some peanuts into the jar.
The town people trapped the monkey with his hand inside the jar. They got hold of the rope and tied him in a post. Then the monkey was sold to a zoo. That was the end of the greedy monkey.
Question? Are you holding on to something that you will not let go of, that is keeping you from experiencing all of God's potential for you? Same question goes for me also. We can hold on to things that we believe that will fulfil us, but in the aftermath of it all, they will end up hurting us. For an example, one may try to have an extra marriage affair, but end up losing his or her whole family.
Or perhaps you wanted to be the master of your own life, so you get into the life of drug addiction and alcoholism, only to find that you now a slave to these addictions.
Maybe you are a workaholic, trying to give your family the best of everything, but you are totally missing out with what their needs really are. They just need you to be a husband and a dad.
Maybe as a man you are hook on porn, and your wife wonders if you still love her the same way when you two first met or has she just become a sexual object to you?
I believe that even Christians can find their hands stuck in the "jars" from time to time. These peanuts can look tempting. We all get tempted to do something that we shouldn't. But we need to remember, the peanuts in the jars was only a lure to trap the monkey. Satan wants to lure us in a trap as well.
PepperJack
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