MEANING:
noun: A place characterized by frivolity and ostentation. ETYMOLOGY: After Vanity Fair, a fair that lasted all year long in the town of Vanity, in the novel Pilgrim's Progress by writer and preacher John Bunyan (1628-1688). In the fair were traded houses, honors, titles, kingdoms, pleasures, and much more.
Sounds like ebay, eh? (from A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg)
Let's remember The Preacher of the Bible..."Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity" (Ecclesiastes 1:2).
But don't ever read this Book without reading the last verse..."Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man" (12:13).
Today, in the age of God's wonderful grace, our only command is to trust in the Lord for the finished work of Calvary where all our sins were paid for. This is not vanity, this is life!
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