I can’t get no Satisfaction

By Elder Anthony Berry

Back in the 1960’s I can remember a group called Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. This group had quite a number of number 1 hits; one of those such hits stands out in my mind today and is and has been true since the beginning of time. The name of the song is I can’t get no satisfaction; how this applies to our situation today is that each and every one of our reactions, and the way that we deal with each other, ourselves and the world is governed by how satisfied we are. Our satisfaction speaks of how happy we are with life day in and day out.

Take for instance the sister that thinks that her nose is too big, or the brother or sister that wakes up one day and find that they are not satisfied with who they are; the question themselves about the situation, then try everything in their power to change their perception of themselves. The sister with small breasts wants big breasts; the sister with big breast wants small breasts. The brother that isn’t happy with his genitalia, the people that are just not satisfied. The picture that we paint of ourselves most of the time is very critical, and this is why there is a need for God in our lives. Before the age of plastic surgery, and change being found in the yellow pages; there was very little that a person could do about their physical appearance. Let’s leave the physical dissatisfaction for a minute and talk about mental and spiritual dissatisfaction. One day Brother X wakes up and feels very unfulfilled and not satisfied with himself. He runs down his mental composition and checks the reasons off one by one to zero in on his dissatisfaction. He has money so that isn’t the problem. He is popular with his fellow man that isn’t the problem. He excels in sports, and is attractive to the opposite sex; not problem there. But when he looks in the mirror his isn’t satisfied because he looks like a man, but deep down inside he feels like a woman. He starts to entertain these thoughts and then feeds them like a mother feeds a hungry baby; of course this makes the yearning for psychological fulfillment larger. By feeding into what is in his mind he first entertains these notions under cover. But in this day and age these feelings are entertained and condoned by society. This is due to the saying today “If it feels good do it.”

This reflects the 1st chapter of the book Romans where in the search for identity, and satisfaction man starts to make gods, and dictate to the man made gods what men deem as acceptable. They then proceed to give credit to the gods that they made with their own hands for the creation of the universe and everything therein (Romans 12:20-23). In doing this God allowed them to entertain their foolishness even to the extent that they would start to take other men as lovers, and just using women to only bear children (Romans 1:24-27). The same holds true for women today. In both cases they have accused God of lying, and of making a mistake as far as what sex they were born. The most evil of both of these sexes is where they only find their desire in someone that has the same sexual parts as they have. Not only does nature speak against this, but things in our day to day lives speak of it also. When you go to plug that appliance into the wall socket or any type of plug in apparatus you need a hole to plug it into. You can’t fit two holes together, neither can you naturally fit two plugs together. All of this is due to not being able to get no satisfaction. This is why the Bible says “Let this same mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself even the death of the cross.
The part about being God doesn’t apply to us (from lowering ourselves from God status) but the rest does (Philippians 2:5-8). If God found satisfaction with being in the body of a human being; then who are we to be dissatisfied with our condition.