Yesterday began as any day would. The alarm sounded and I hit the snooze. It is very rarely that I get a chance to sleep in so I turned off the alarm clock and slept until I was ready to get up. After sleeping in my day was pretty much planned out for me from the afternoon on. My friend Billy had 5 of his guy friends from back home visiting out here in LA and yesterday was their first day in the city. We started the evening off at Billy’s watching American Gladiators while the guys played some beer pong. The we went to a local bar & grill: Barney’s Beanery. It is that place in the middle of LA that makes you feel like you are somwhere back home. It is always a great place to out-of-towners cause they feel like they fit in.
Finally we ended up at AREA. It, I assume, is a happening club here in LA. During my 4 1/2 years out in LA I have never been “clubbing”. I am just not the type. Don’t get me wrong I love going out and I love music, but I don’t love sweaty strangers, music that cracks my eardrums, and over priced food and drinks.
Upon arriving at the club we met an Oscar winning actor (who will remain nameless) seated in the VIP section of the club. My friend Ali somehow knows him so she said she would introduce us all. At first it was great. One of those time where you go, “I can’t believe I am in the same room as this person.” After the introductions we stayed there and danced all night. Slowly, this actor’s character began to slip. The way he was acting with the girls in the club made me question a lot about him. He is suppose to be married and the woman he is kissing heavily isn’t his wife.
It just made me think. We put an aweful lot of trust in people. In how people see us, in how we see other people. For some reason we get our validation from others instead of from God. We are all human, and we all fail. But there is redeption. There is forgiveness. There is salvation.
No one can escape the need to be loved, to be touched, to be cherished. Not even fame and money can buy that for you.
But the price has been paid. God paid it through his son’s death on a cross. We have been given eternal life and eternal love. We won’t find it in a club or in the person sitting next to us. We find it at the cross, at the feet of Jesus.
