Recently I heard the song “Just Dance” by Lady Gaga and it reminded me of something I read in the Bible.
I believe that ‘all truth is God’s truth’ and so I celebrate and acknowledge truth wherever I find it.
The Bible teaches that God created a good world which went bad. It teaches that we live in a broken world and things have gone wrong. There is beauty and good in our world but there are also many tragedies. Some people complain about the long lines at the grocery store while others go to bed hungry. Cancer swoops up on the kindest person while the crook lives on. We encounter this brokenness daily as we hear of stories on the news and also ponder the depravity of our own desperate hearts.
“Just Dance” by Lady Gaga provides an alternative for the troubled world we live in. A different way of dealing with the pain. The song is about a girl who wakes up at a stranger’s house after a night of intoxication and carousing. She’s worried about not knowing how she arrived there and she can’t find her phone or keys. She has a hang over and can’t see straight. She can’t even remember the name of the club. Yet, in the midst of this complicated, corrupt and crappy situation she has one solution: Just Dance. This “just dance” sounded familiar to something the Apostle Paul did when he was in a sticky situation.
