I recently read an article explaining how people in India catch monkeys. They cut a small hole in a box. Then they put a tasty nut in the box. The hole is just large enough for the monkey to get a hand in. But it’s too small for a hand clutching a nut.

So, the monkey has two choices: It can let go of the nut and go free, or it can hang on to the nut and stay trapped. They usually hang on to the nut.

The monkey is a good image of us, and the nut a good image of sin in our lives. As long as we hang on to our sin, we cannot go free. We remain trapped.

Today is a good time to ask ourselves, what sin do we want to let go of in our lives?

The words of John Bunyan are fitting here: “One leak will sink a ship; and one sin will destroy sinner.” God bless.