In James 4:4-5 the Bible says, "You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? That is why the Scripture says: 'God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
If you do not understand this, I'll break it down. Friend ship back then meant more than it does now. It meant having great trust in. Meaning being a friend of the world means that you trust it. But trusting in the world means trusting in not only things, but the people in it as well. Friends, family, if you have them children, everyone and everything. Because they can, and will leave you. The world will leave you. Things will rot and rust, people will wither and die, the world is full of idols that will take away your focus and then leave and hurt you.
When the Spirit envies it envies the world. Why? Because we are putting our trust into the world and God want to take the world's place. He wants us to trust in him.
Do you guys see what God's asking? He wants us to trust Him more than our friends, our parents, our siblings, our own children, all the people in the world. (But don't get me wrong, we should still care for each other and help each other as well. I'll explain why in a minute.) I understand how that could be hard. So does God. He understands this. That's why he sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins, our mistakes.
Now everyone even though we can't trust in the world or the people in it, we should still be kind to it, and to others. God might not want us to trust it, but He does want us to treat it as ourselves. Just be careful about how much, and how you do it.
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