Friendship with the World Is Hostility toward God

Note from today’s Bible reading: James 4-5

We generally recognize friendship as being a good thing. Yet James described a certain type of friendship that was anything but good. He wrote, “You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God” (James 4:4).

James used some pretty s…