James 4:4-10
The key words are: friend, enemy, proud, humble. James says that friendship with the world means that you are God's enemy. He also contrasts God's treatment of the proud with his treatment of the humble. He then calls the reader to submit to God, even though the word picture is more of sorrowful repentance (which makes sense, since repenting from pride means that you will humble yourself).
The key for me is this: I can't have a foot on both paths, I can't be friends with both the world and with God. The paths are headed in opposite directions and the world is directly opposed to God. The world is all about raising yourself up, getting ahead, looking out for yourself (and seeing yourself as #1). God is all about raising himself up, making him famous and looking out for the real #1. The world is all about living for the moment, carpe diem. God is all about living for eternity, seizing the future. The world is all about play now, pay later. God is more about pay now, play later. As Joshua said, "Choose you this day whom you will serve..." I can't have it both ways.
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