The movie “Up in the Air,” starring George Clooney as a Ryan Bingham, explores the hollow life of an aging bachelor whose business downsizes companies. His job requires him to travel extensively. On one of his business trips, he meets a woman, Alex(andra) in a bar, whom he later seduces. She and Ryan begin a long affair as they meet in different cities on their respective business trips.
Ryan begins to think he would like to settle down with Alex. He has never considered marriage because his job is his life, but he has fallen in love with her. So he looks her up in Chicago and goes to her home unannounced. He discovers she is married and has children. Later on that evening, they meet and she says: “This is my real life, you (Ryan) are just a distraction.”
Many times in the Bible, people treat God as a distraction to their “real lives.” Their real life belonged to an idol or to someone who substituted for God. However, God wants an undivided heart. As the first commandment states, “you shall have no other gods besides me.” (Exodus 20.3)
Is God your real life or just a distraction?
