The friends of God act one way and the enemies of God act another way. Fighting to get what you want, regardless of who gets hurt is not God’s way. Even selfish praying is the way of the world. Friendship with the world is more than our chumminess toward the world, it is imitating the way the world does business. It is to live an unexamined life, acting just like the world in how it lives its life. The friends of God seek to live godly Christlike lives. I want to live like a friend of God.
“What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” (James 4:1–4 ESV).
