James 4:4 Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.
None of us would intentionally declare ourselves to be God’s enemies. Yet, when we choose our own way instead of God’s ways –when we choose the world’s wisdom over God’s wisdom –when we choose to side with the world instead of siding with God, that’s exactly what we are doing.
The world’s values are carnal and unspiritual; they are, in fact, influenced by the devil. So, when we choose these values over God’s values, we are quite literally choosing the evil one over God.
Whether we have thought this decision through or not, the result is the
same: when we side with the world, we declare ourselves to be God’s
enemies. And just to make sure we understand, James says it clearly
again: “anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy
of God.”
It is not an option that God leaves open to us for us to be vaguely religious. We cannot be “kind of” Christian.
When it comes to spiritual things, God wants us to be fully surrendered to Him, living our lives in His Spirit, choosing His ways over our own ways. Clearly, there is a choice here that we must make.
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It is not an option that God leaves open to us for us to be vaguely religious. We cannot be “kind of” Christian.
When it comes to spiritual things, God wants us to be fully surrendered to Him, living our lives in His Spirit, choosing His ways over our own ways. Clearly, there is a choice here that we must make.
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