Vanity means both conceit and emptiness or worthlessness (Webster).
Scripture warns of the dangers of vanity. Ephesians 4: 17-18 states that believers/Christians are to "walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart. "
In other words, a vain person is ignorant, without understanding, blinded to truth, foolishly prideful, and oblivious to his own sad condition. The vain person is a fool who thinks he is smart ("Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools...." (Ro 1:22).
Before dismissing these passages as inapplicable to one's own life, the wise person will ask God to reveal those areas of vanity/conceit/ emptiness in his own life. Can anyone truly say he is fully cleansed from vanity?
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