The promised blessing for honoring a covenant
is that we may always have His Spirit to be with us.
Precisely because the promised blessing
is that we may always have His Spirit to be with us,
we should attend to and learn from the choices and influences
that separate us from the Holy Spirit.
The standard is clear.
If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us
from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing,
hearing, or doing that thing.
If that which is intended to entertain,
for example, alienates us from the Holy Spirit,
then certainly that type of entertainment is not for us.
Because the Spirit cannot abide that which is vulgar, crude,
or immodest, then clearly such things are not for us.
Because we estrange the Spirit of the Lord
when we engage in activities we know we should shun,
then such things definitely are not for us.