Monkey vs Man
Saturday, June 13, 2009 10:21:29 AM
There is this funny story about monkeys. A certain farmer discovered that once a monkey has some food in its hands, it can not drop it no matter the circumstances.
Some monkeys had been disturbing him for a long time. An idea came into his mind, and he tried. He took a calabash and made a small hole near the bottom. He put some good amount of peanuts inside, and tied the calabash to a tree. Then he hid.
One monkey was lucky to be the 'guinea pig' for the farmer. The monkey, after looking around and making sure that nobody saw him, quickly slid his hand into the hole near the bottom of the calabash, and got a good hold of a good quantity of peanuts. While he was pulling out his hand, it could'nt. The space was enough for a stretched hand but not for a folded hand.
Unfortunately, the monkey can not reason like a man. As it saw the farmer approaching, he pulled the more, but he could'nt unfold his fist and escape, for that is not in his reasoning. The farmer killed it and many hundreds of monkeys in that way, and the clever monkeys never again go to his farm, because many of those who go there, never return. But there still remains that some monkeys still go, and they get killed.
I hope you didnt laugh at the monkeys. We are no different. Satan has laid the same same same kind of trap for us christians. By calling ourselves Christians, and proving to be opposite of christians, we are invading Satan's territory. He has the traps ready. He puts the sinful things to appear less sinful, by presenting it in a more different way. He gives you the reason that sometimes some sins have no alternative, other than doing them. You get the environment and the situation more favouring you to sin, more than to escape. Here, like the monkey, you slip your hand into the trap. My friend, one step leads to another. It will be more difficult to withdraw your hand, more than the monkey found it to be. In this way, the devil can harm you, just as the farmer did to the monkeys. Good bye and think more about this my brethren.













