But it can so easily go the other way and instead our vanity...

But it can so easily go the other way and instead our vanity becomes even more entrenched.
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Dazedandconfused, I agree! I watched a documentary entitled FAME many years ago. The short-lived & tragic lives of so many famous(& infamous) people got me wondering what it was that drove them.
Ecclesiastes 1:2) “The greatest futility!” says the congregator, “The greatest futility! Everything is futile!”
This is the end result of a life that ignores God's guidance & follows ones own whims.