“You people aren’t faithful to God! Don’t you know that if you love the world, you are God’s enemies? And if you decide to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.”
James 4:4
There is a deadly counterpart to racial prejudice. It prefers someone simply because they share your skin color or ethnic background. Of course, it is wrong to separate ourselves from others based on ethnicity or skin color, but it can be very dangerous to join ourselves to others only on the same criteria.
Prejudice pulls people apart for incredibly insignificant reasons. Conversely people ban together for equally petty justifications. If you drive a "Harley" motorcycle you probably don't get along with those who drive Hondas. If you drive a Jeep you find that Jeep owners always wave at each other when they meet on the road. This example list could go on almost forever. It is a list of small reasons why people prefer or hate each other! You will find that you can't reconcile two groups of people who are and have been sworn enemies while they cling on to their prejudice.
When it comes to the world and God there is no reconciliation outside of Jesus. Jesus came to save you out of the world not to save the world in its fallen condition.
Even as you can't be a member of a Harley motorcycle club and drive a Honda, you can't be a friend of the world and God at the same time. This life is your one and only, God given opportunity to make that choice.
If you have chosen not to follow God, what is the reason? Also, if you have chosen to follow Him I would ask you why? If you choose to reject God, and He has given you that right in this life, I would simply encourage you to find out who He is. Don't reject Jesus for some silly and insignificant reason.
If you choose to accept Jesus, do it because God loves you and desires that you love Him too!
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