Love affairs

I’ve been stuck on these verses lately, zeroing in on totally understanding what friendship with the world really is, and what it surely looks like.. James 4:5 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”? ¿Adultery with God is to be in love with the world, and yet for some reason the fine line that defines this adulterous love affair with the world is overshadowed, and not seen very easily, as mankind convinces itself of all sorts of reasons it can love the world and God equally. Where does love for the world begin, and what are the evidences of it? Articulating such a deep matter requires so much more attention from us, collectively, to help each other not become the adulterer God despises. And, because most don’t want to be judged, or judge in a way that exposes their self, we ignore the matter and just hoot and holler for Jesus, with the hopes that we can hide or ignore any love we have for the world, by overemphasizing other areas of our relationship with God, as if one thing can cancel out the need of dealing with the other. God is Jealous. Do we really consider that the way it needs to be?! God is Jealous, jealous of what?, being that He owns EVERYTHING, and nothing exists that He does not have control of. Am I causing God to be jealous? This is a serious thing, requiring deep inner reflection that exposes the very truth of ourselves to us. The next verse after those says.. James 4:6 But God gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”. ¿Meaning, as God bestows grace upon grace on us, and our response is to love the world and Him at the same time, that pride will grip our reasoning and pervert our humility, to the point that we are oblivious to the truth of the status of the direction of our true love, due to our humanity that needs constant discipline that we ignore for the sake of our own desires and comfort. Matthew 6:24 and 1 John 2:15-17 shed lots of light on this subject. If we are not asking ourselves the hard questions when it comes to our relationship with our God, there’s no doubt that the things we need to know and do, will suffer tremendously! Father, purify my heart, for this is not something I can do apart from You! In Christ’s name, Amen