How to Catch a Monkey

From a couple of sources:

Do you know how to catch a monkey?

In India, they take a gourd, cut a small hole in it, and put some peanuts inside.  Then they tie the gourd down securely and wait for the monkey.

Monkeys are greedy and selfish.  I guess you could say anybody who is greedy and selfish is a monkey.  Anyway, monkeys are so greedy and selfish that the monkey sticks his paw into the gourd to get the peanut.  He grabs a handful-but then he can't get his hand out of the gourd.  His fist won't go through the small hole.

And he's so greedy and selfish that he won't let go of the handful of peanuts.  He just waits there with his greedy fist wrapped around the peanuts until the men come and take him.

It's too bad the poor monkey could save its own life if it would only let go of the peanuts. It rarely occurs to a monkey, however, that it can't have both the peanuts and its freedom. That delicious peanut becomes a deadly trap. 

Jesus said, "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven." Jesus also said "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?"