Indifference is a sin of no ordinary kind; it is an offense of great magnitude; it is pure and simple wickedness. To rightly estimate this, we must call to mind what it is that men treat with indifference.
It is the claims of God that are set at naught, and the love of God that is despised. The gift of the Son of God, His work of infinite love at Calvary, the glory which that work has thrown open, and all the present blessings of the salvation of God, are so many trifles to the indifferent sinner; he can afford to treat them with contemptuous disregard, if not disdain.
After all the resources of divine love have been taxed to the utmost, after the heart of God has told itself out in the most wonderful way; after all the treasures of heavenly grace have been presented; after the invitation has gone forth in its fullness— “Come, for all things are now ready” —the insulting answer which goes back to the giver of the feast is:
“I pray Thee have me excused”; I have other and more important matters in hand; I cannot come. There is more wickedness in this than in all the crimes that stain the pages of any prison’s calendar.
Reader, forget not that
“Into the depths of endless woe
Rejectors of the Savior go;
Forbid the thought that you, who read,
Should longer have no sense of need.”