While listening to David Jeremiah, this morning. He told the story of ''the monkeys fist''. I found this story quite interesting, and wanted to share with you.
The monkeys fist

there's an ancient parable, the monkeys fist. It teaches a profound lesson. Native tribes would catch monkeys by hollering out coconuts, filling them with bait, then tethering them to trees for monkeys to find. When the monkey reached into the small opening in the coconut, his hands fit,but once his fist was full the bait, he could not retrieve his hand. The monkey was trapped. The lesson for all of us is that the coconut was not the monkeys undoing. But rather, his greedy unwillingness to let go of the bait.

Okay, so I know what you're thinking''' dumb animal'''. But aren't most humans just as dumb and just as greedy? Humans have a want button. A want button, that never seems to be turned off. We are all guilty, not one of us can stand back and say that it's not true about us and many of the people we know. We all want what we don't need. We all want what everyone else has. We're hungry for stuff. And as we stick our own hand into that imaginary coconut, and grab for all the things that satan has placed inside for us. We might remember that we don't need a handful. But just get what's actually needed.
James 1: 17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.