Sin is a form of madness and those who persist in it have their eyes shut to its eternal consequences. Even though men appear to get away with evil in this life and to face no consequences here, yet their continuance in it and their denial of future reality makes their present course of life a form of insanity. Those who have lost touch with reality we call mad. Their behaviour only makes sense in the unreal world they have concocted for themselves. Unbelief has concocted a world without God, in which sin will not be punished, and there is no Day of Judgment to face. For them, death will be like a forcible recall from madness back to a deeply unwelcome sanity. A sense of reality would have kept them from making such foolish choices, but now their past record will be a cause of extreme distress to them. How could they have convinced themselves of so many things that are not true? This madness is self-induced in order to make sin easier. It is a temporary madness from which we must return only to regret with shame the acts committed while in that state. The excuse that life appeared confusing will not pass muster when we come into the clear light of day. We will not be able to deny what God had revealed to us of his word and in our consciences, which we deliberately ignored.