Let’s Get Drunk Together!!

There is a commercial on television that reminds us that life comes at us fast. Christian singles can definitely relate to that!

Here you are trying to live a righteous life and then Mr. or Miss Look So Good walks into view. Before you catch yourself, you start thinking and wondering and eventually lusting.

It’s Friday night and everyone you know is celebrating the start of another weekend baby! But not you. What times does that show come on the television tonight. Buckle up, it’s going to be another lonely night.

You make a quick run to the store to pick up some items. You go down the canned vegetable isle and you see a husband and wife and their 3 “bad” kids talking about stuff that married folks talk about and you silently wonder “Why not me?” You go over to the meat section and while looking at a package of turkey sausage, you see a boyfriend and girlfriend holding hands as they float by in obvious bliss. You put that sausage down and you look to the left and to the right and to the front and to the back and it hits you like a ton of bricks: EVERYBODY got somebody but me! Even that lady with the bad hair and that dude with the high-water pants.

Guess what? You are a Christian single and life is coming at you real fast! Don’t look now but loneliness, depression, sexual frustration and even anger are on the way.

In times like this, what do our unsaved friends do? They call each other and say, “Let’s get drunk together!” They meet up and they get their drink on and lament how life is doing them wrong. They laugh together, cry together, share secrets they probably should have kept to themselves and they offer some semblance of support.

But Christian singles, what do we do? What if we could find the spiritual alternative to “Let’s get drunk together?” Instead of getting mad at God or our ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend or that person who did not return your gestures of affection or even yourself, why not find someone to do the equivalent of “getting drunk” with? Wait! Put that bottle of wine down! Instead, be the kind of friend that people can genuinely turn to when life came at them a little too fast. If two people can get drunk and slobber their sorrows away, surely Christian singles can get together to take away each other’s pain.