All that is in the world has been raised up to please the eye or fleshly feeling and the love of grandeur where Satan reigns and where Christ was crucified, not to please the Father; the ornaments that please Him are spiritual. Worldliness begins wherever Christ is not the motive and rule of what I do, in the necessary details of life. He bends graciously to my necessities, but He does not cultivate folly. I shall seek what meets my necessity with thankfulness. If I seek to please the world and meet its eye, worldliness begins.
Things New and Old