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| Monkey's Trap |
An interesting system has been used for capturing monkeys
in the jungles of Africa. The goal is to take the monkeys
alive and unharmed for shipment to zoos of America. In an
extremely humane way, the captors use heavy bottles, with
long narrow necks, into which they deposit a handful of
sweet-smelling nuts. The bottles are dropped on the jungle
floor, and the captors return the next morning to find a
monkey trapped next to each bottle.
How is it accomplished? The monkey, attracted by the
aromatic scent of the nuts, comes to investigate the bottle,
the nuts, and is trapped. The monkey can't take its hand out
of the bottle as long it's holding the nuts, but it is
unwilling to open its hand and let them go. The bottle is
too heavy to carry away, so the monkey is trapped.
We may smile at the foolish monkeys, but how often we hold
to our problems so tenaciously as the monkeys hold to the
nuts in the bottle. And so, figuratively we carry our bottle
around with us, feeling very sorry for ourselves, and begging
for sympathy from others, even from God.
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