BBD 03.26.09 Curiosity Killed the Cat
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03.26.09
Curiosity Killed the Cat
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord
God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not
eat of every tree of the garden'?" And the woman said to the serpent, "We
may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it,
nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'" Then the serpent said to the woman,
"You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your
eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." So
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to
the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and
ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of
both of them were opened, and they knew that they were n_ked; and they sewed
fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. - Genesis 3:1-7.
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and
enticed. - James 1:14.
We have two cats that are like little kids and want to look at everything.
Their curiosity has gotten them into so much trouble and it is easy to see
how the saying "curiosity killed the cat" came into being. Human beings have
a lot of curiosity too and it has gotten many of us into trouble. In
Arizona, a bobcat was the cause of the Cottonwood police being dispatched to
three separate incidents. In one of the incidents which was caught on cell
phone video, the cat made those present scramble. Kyle Hicks was one of
those who attempted to film the cat with his phone. While he was getting
close to the cat to video it, the cat attacked scratching his face and the
back of his ears. The cat also scratched at least one other person on the
legs. The bobcat was killed by Cottonwood police officers, and it has been
determined that the animal had rabies. All of the individuals that had
contact with the cat are now having to take rabies shots.
Curiosity got the best of Kyle Hicks and Kyle now has to receive those shots
for rabies. Curiosity to some extent was the cause of the original sin of
Adam and Eve. They were tempted but they were also curious about what the
fruit of the forbidden tree would taste like. They were curious about what
having their eyes opened and being "like God" would be like. Our natural
curiosity about things exposes us to temptation, and it has been causing
trouble ever since Adam and Eve satisfied their curiosity by giving in to
temptation. There are many things that we are exponentially better off not
knowing about. We may be curious about p_orn, but we will be so much better
off without ever having viewed any of it. We may be curious about smoking,
but we will be much better off without ever trying it. We may be curious
about pot, or meth, or coke, or any of a multitude of addictive substances,
but we will save ourselves from so many troubles by never satisfying our
curiosity. We may be curious about s_x outside of marriage, but we can save
ourselves from so much pain by never experiencing it.
The end result of being "drawn away" and "enticed" by your desires to do
evil is that "when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin,
when it is full-grown, brings forth death (James 1:15)." Curiosity may kill
the cat, but you do not have to let it kill you because there is a way of
escape as we are told in 1 Corinthians 10:13, "No temptation has overtaken
you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow
you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will
also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it."
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