Get A Hold Of Yourself!!!

and someone would grab them firmly and say, GET A HOLD OF YOURSLELF!

We live in a nation that seem to have lost control of themselves as a nation.

IT IS CRAZY WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS NATION!

• In our public schools some of our educators are encouraging our young people to change their sex!!!

Years ago if a teacher encourage this they would have been fired immediately and dis-qualified and never again allowed to teach again in our schools.

• Also, in our public school we have the boys entering the girls locker rooms under the disguise of being a transgender student claiming they are now a female!!!

Years ago if a boy made such claim he would have been placed under psychiatric care immediately.

• We have mothers that is marching on the streets demanding that they legally have the right to kill their unborn children!!!

• We have thousands and thousands in this country demanding their right to legalize drugs!!!

(What is it that the astronauts say….Huston we have a problem!)

Illus: I feel like the fellow who said, “I think the whole world has gone slap crazy except my wife and me and sometime I wonder about her!”

When we hear of such things taking place in our schools and in this nation we want to grab these people by the collar and say to them GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF…HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND!!!

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

One of the problems in this nation is the DISCONTENTMENT that we find among the young and the old.

Now I base that not on some survey that I have read, but by listening to discontented people talk.

Illus: Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., observes that our society is marked by "inextinguishable discontent."

We have a lot of un-happy people in this country. That is, NOT ANYTHING IN LIFE SATISFIES THEM!!!

Illus: A number of years ago there was a popular program called “The Goldbergs”.

In one episode, Jake Goldberg came home for supper and excitedly told his wife, Molly, about a great idea he had. He wanted to go into business.

Molly had some money put away, anticipating just such a thing, and she gave it to him.

• As they sat at the dinner table, enthusiastically discussing the future, Jake said, “Molly, some day we’ll be eating off of golden plates!”

• Molly looked at him and replied, “Jake, darling, will the food taste any better?” (Source unknown)

No person can ever be happy until he has learned to enjoy what he has and not to worry over what he does not have.

Basically this is why we:

• Have all these divorces

• Have all this stealing

• Have all this anger

• Have all these riots

• Have all this un-happiness

o Illus: Someone said:

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• Discontentment makes rich men poor,

• While contentment makes poor men rich.

Illus: I am reminded of a man who had no shoes and complained until he met a man who had no feet.

I can say with some confidence that everyone desires to have contentment in their life.

Why not…

• Because contentment brings Joy into our lives.

• Because contentment brings peace into our lives.

• Because contentment brings satisfaction into our lives.

So naturally everyone desires to have contentment in their life.

But again, very few today have contentment in their life.

It could be for two reasons:

(1) Some do not have it because they do not know what it is.

Let me illustrate…

Illus: Once upon a time, a rich business owner was walking along the shore, when he came along a fisherman sitting lazily beside his boat.

“Why aren’t you out there fishing?” he asked.

• “Because I’ve caught enough fish for today,” said the fisherman.

• “Why don’t you catch more fish than you need?’ the rich man asked.

• “What would I do with them?” said the fisherman.

• “You could earn more money,” came the impatient reply, “Buy a better boat so you could go deeper and catch more fish. You could purchase nylon nets, catch even more fish, and make more money. Soon you’d have a fleet of boats and be rich like me.”

• The fisherman asked, “Then what would I do?”

• “You could sit down and enjoy life,” said the industrialist.

• “What do you think I’m doing now?” the fisherman replied, as he looked peacefully out to the sea.

We have a world full of un-happy people and if CONTENTMENT was to smack them in the face they would not know it.

Illus: For example, we can have a man today who has a nice home, cars, clothes, beautiful wife, children and money and in the bank and he is not satisfied.