CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT

What does this mean, ‘curiosity killed the cat’? Many years ago people faced a problem where there was not enough meat. So butchers used to kill cats and sell their meat in their shops. The way they used to catch the cat was to put a sack on the ground in the alley and then wait. Cats are very curious animals and when they saw the sack they would wonder what was inside. They would crawl inside and then the butchers would close the bag with the cat inside. An easy catch.

We as humans can also be curious but in the same way the butchers caught the cat, satan also traps you. You think there is no harm but satan has you in his bag and later there will be a consequence.

In this world knowing too much information can get you killed. If you are involved in the mafia and you decide to leave, you will not be able to leave without being killed because you know too much information. Many people say that Marilyn Munroe was killed because she knew too much information about the Kennedys. Eye witnesses to the death of JFK were also killed.

Knowing too much information can not only kill you physically but also spiritually. A few years ago I bought something that was really nice and a good friend of mine asked me, ‘how much did it cost?’ When I told her $5 she became jealous to the point of hating me. This information caused a spiritual death.

There was a man on the bachelorette who was curious to know what the woman was doing on another date. He saw her kissing another man and this had a negative impact on him, he became angry and he hated her which lead to a spiritual death.

Another man on temptation island was given the opportunity to see a video of his wife and because of curiosity he watched it and he saw her kissing another man. This made the man to become so angry that he wanted revenge so he slept with another woman. His curiosity lead to spiritual death.

A young girl working in a café was curious to know her bosses age and so took the lady’s handbag and found her wallet and then opened the wallet so she could look at her license to find her age. As she was doing so the boss caught her and assumed she was stealing. Because of curiosity her reputation was ruined.

You hear many people say, ‘out of curiosity, blah, blah, blah’ or they ask a question and the person answers with, ‘why do you want to know that?’ and the answer will be, ‘just curious’. We take it for granted and don’t really think about it but it’s actually quite serious.

Cats as you know are very curious and they often crawl into the chimney because of curiosity and they get trapped and then someone lights a fire and the cat dies. Satan’s trap will lead you to fire and death also.

Some of you know my parent’s cat Arnold. When he was a kitten he climbed under my grandparent’s car because he was curious. When my grandparents left we didn’t know he was under the car and he traveled all the way to their house. Curiosity can lead you far away also. Because you need to know certain information you will try any means to get it. Maybe you will listen in to phone calls, maybe you will read people’s mail or diaries, maybe you will ask too many questions and push people to the limit, maybe you know that Lebon was at Michael’s house in the weekend so you will ask him, ‘how was their house, what did you eat, what did Nathanael wear?’ In your quest to find the truth you will be lead further and further away from God and as you know God is the ultimate truth so you will actually travel far from the truth thinking you are getting closer to the truth (satan is good at distracting us).

Also, this kitten was very afraid when he got to my grandparents house. Curiosity can lead us to fear and to doubt also. For example, your husband comes home and you say, ‘Where were you?’ and he answers, ‘With Michael’. The next day you decide to check on him and you ask Michael, ‘What did you do last night?’ and he says, ‘oh, I was home’. You start to fear that your husband was lying to you and then you start to fear that maybe he’s having an affair. You start to doubt your husband and your curiosity causes you to lose your faith in your husband.

Also, the kitten was completely fumed out with poisonous gases and since that day he’s been a bit slow in the brain. So the consequences of his curiosity were serious.

There are many examples in the Bible but the one that came to my mind straight away was Lot’s wife. I can understand how she felt though, I would have been curious to know what was going on behind me too. But her curiosity caused her to become a pillar of salt. Salt in great quantities is deadly. The dead sea is the way that it is due to salt. There is no life in the dead sea and you will lose your spiritual life and cause death in others too because of your curiosity. Salt is very tasty and so is curiosity. Everybody enjoys a good gossip but in the end it will kill you.

Eve was also curious to know how the fruit tasted and to know how it is to know good and evil but her decision to taste it led to death also.

In Genesis 9 we can read a story about Noah and how he got drunk and lay in his tent naked. Ham was curious and looked at his father’s nakedness and called his brothers to look also. What we can learn from this story is the reaction of his brothers. They refused to look at their father and instead walked backwards with a blanket and covered their father.

When someone brings information to you that does not concern you or is potentially harmful, you have to stop them like Ham’s brothers did. But how many times do we stop someone when they come and says, ‘look at this’? We usually don't stop them but enjoy together.

We also have to be aware of curiosity in others and be careful with what we say. For example, if I tell Colleen, ‘I saw Pete yesterday at Burger King’. That information might cause Colleen to be more curious and need to know more information. And does Colleen really need to know that you saw Pete yesterday? How will that benefit her soul?

Recently on the news a cat got trapped inside a pipe. People had to rescue it and it was dirty and had to be cleaned and it was hungry and had to be fed. When we get trapped by satan, we also need to be freed, cleaned and fed. For many people curiosity is something that is deep in them and if this is you, you will need God’s help to free you from that. You’ll need to repent and ask God to clean you and you will need to feed on the Word of God to help you to resist when satan tempts you.

By Hayley Boud