“Remove falsehood and lies far from me” (Proverbs 30:8)

Since Christians have the Holy Spirit within them, they should feel uncomfortable when they indulge in vanity, or anything that causes them to lose their sense of “righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Romans 14:17).

The world may find happiness elsewhere, but saints cannot. I don’t blame ungodly men for rushing to their pleasures. As the Apostle Paul said, pursuit of pleasure for its own sake is logical if there’s no afterlife. “If the dead do not rise, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” (1 Corinthians 15:32). Let sinners have their fill of sin. That’s all they’ll ever have to enjoy. A converted wife whose husband wasn’t saved, was always very kind to him, for she said, “I fear that this is the only world in which he’ll be happy, and therefore, I’ve made up my mind to make him as happy as I can in it.”

Christians must seek their delights in a higher sphere than “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (1 John 2:16). No Christian is safe when his soul ignores the indwelling Holy Spirit. If he has reason to doubt his salvation, he should come back to Christ, as soon as he’s aware of the danger.