Holding on to what we DON'T need!

I have always been a person who relates stories of real life to how God loves us and cares for us. I suppose that shows in my sermons as well. But last night I got to thinking how so many times we so desperately hold on to something that is not good to us. Whether it be relationships, belongings, bad habits, even money.Last night I was standing in the kitchen after I had gone grocery shopping. When I buy meat the first thing I do when I get home is divide it all up in to me size portions and wrap it and put it in the freezer. Well, I had just finished the chicken. I had cut the fat off and put it in the garbage which was getting full. All of the sudden I hear Issie growling like I have never heard before. I turn around and see that she has a piece of this raw chicken in her mouth and she is trying to eat it. Jake is trying to get it from her and she is not happy. I barely touched her and she screamed at me and clawed me. I was truly worried how I was going to get this raw meat out of her mouth. Eventually, I quickly managed to pick her up by the scruff on the back of her neck and pry the raw chicken from her jaws while she growled at me and had a death grip on my hands with her claws. She was not happy.Ten minutes later... she did it again.God takes things from us or at least attempts to do so when they are harmful for us. We kick and scream and cry about it because we think we want it but God knows we don't need it. And then what do we do? We get it back. We go through this cycle of constantly having things we don't need. And all the while I can imagine that God is laughing and shaking his head thinking why don't they just believe me when I tell them they don't need something?