Americans have problems finding happiness
Are you happy? What would it take to make you happy? I have been thinking about the seemingly sad state of mind of many individuals today. As we pick up a newspaper or turn on the radio or television we hear and read of killings, robberies, rapes and other crimes Americans comment against Americans. It seems a little odd that many disapprove of the war in Iran and Iraq.
Have you ever noticed that a daily toll of the casualties of that war is always given. However the daily toll of Americans killing Americans in the United States is never given. I would guess we would be surprised if we were to compare the two. In a war you sort of expect some casualties. And in a nation that is supposedly at peace, one should expect NO casualties.
Land of the free, and home of the brave; is a motto that is often heard. It is used with reference to America. But how free are we? There are at least three places in which we should all be able to feel safe ? our home, our school and the church. I can remember when none of these places were ever locked. Likely as not no one knew where the key was and no one bothered anything. Now, not only must one lock up everything, some even go so far as to invest in security alarms for their property. Even with all of these precautions, they do not seem to slow down those who would want to take the things belonging to another.
Even as I write this I heard of a series of break-ins in Nashville by hooded individuals. Isn?t it sad that some seem to find it necessary to go on a spree such as this? It makes me wonder what kind of training have they had? Of if they had any. Sometimes an individual may get away with something, but if his conscience is trained right, that conscience will bother him and, more than likely will be unhappy with his life until he straightens out his life.
Silver and gold does not always bring about true happiness. They may generate just the opposite. If they are the only things we put our trust in, then we aren?t really living. I don?t understand how an individual can find happiness and joy in taking things belonging to others. Especially killing them in the process. You know taking somebody?s life is something that can?t be given back. It is an act that really should be thought out carefully. The character we build and maintain for ourselves is the character we will have to live with. Many like blame others for their action if such action leads to something that is not good. We always should be on our guard and be careful in all that we do.
Only with that can we make the marks of a truly happy person.
Proverbs 2:6 ? Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Matthew 6:25 ? Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body?