Thinking from Hunting monkeys

Have you ever heard how hunters used to trap monkeys? The hunters would fill a lage barrel with bananas and then cut a small hole in the side of it, just barely big enough for the monkey to get his hand and arm through. The monkey, completely unaware of the trap, would reach his arm into the barrel and grab one of those bananas. But when he tried to pull his arm out, he couldn't get his clenched fist and the banana back out of the hole. The monkey wanted that banana so badly that he wouldn't release it. Consequently, the hunters would easily capture the monkey. It's interesting that at any point prior to the capture, the monkey could have simply let go of the banana and pulled his hand out of the barrel, but he was so focused on what he wanted that he didn't even realized he was in a trap!
Many people live like that today-with both hands clenched, so focused on tring to hold on to what they have that they don't realized it is robbing them of the freedom and victory God has in store.