In Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, he talks about simple monkey traps used by indigenous people in various parts of the world.
To make the trap, you hollow out a gourd, leaving an opening just large enough for a monkey to get his open hand through. Once the gourd is securely chained to a tree, you place inside it some nuts or rice—something the monkey desires to eat.
The monkey reaches into the gourd to grab the food, but his fist full of food is too large to pull out of the hole. He’s trapped! He pulls and yanks in vain. He will not let go. Even when the hunters arrived to check the trap, he will not let go. His life ends because he will not let go.
Before you judge the monkey’s stupidity, stop and think about all the stuff that we hold onto that is destructive. How much misery do we create simply because we will not let go?
There is power available in Jesus to let go. Sweet freedom awaits!
Romans 6:22
Now that you have been set free from sin. . ., the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
What do you need to let go?
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