Indifferent
“One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever” (Ecclesiastes 1:4).
People just don’t care anymore! When I was growing up people still had some concern about eternity and going to heaven. They may have had a very mistaken idea about how to get there — keeping the ten commandments, good works, giving to charity, attending church regularly, etc., but at least there was some concept of life beyond life on earth.
But today people seem completely indifferent to it all. They are like Solomon in the above verse who simply viewed things from the perspective of earth and time. What they don’t realize is, that they are rushing headlong to a lost eternity, and that they will wake up some day with the knowledge that it’s too late and that there is no hope.
When the rich man spoke from the confines of hell he was no longer indifferent. “Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment” (Luke 16:27-28). There are earnest souls in hell, but it is too late!
