God expects us to recognise the greatness of our opportunities and to respond to them appropriately. Light from heaven is the most precious thing we can have in this world, and we ought to be willing to go to any lengths to obtain it. Indifference to God and to the gospel is blameworthy, because it results from the hardening of the heart. God has in his kindness delayed the implementation of the sentence against us. We live out our lives under the shadow of death, and it should be obvious to us that our greatest need is to escape from this greatest of enemies. It ought to fill us with consternation that we must lose life and face the judgment that follows, and this should drive us to seek the Lord above everything else. Instead we deliberately immerse ourselves in the trivia of this life and blot out of our minds the concerns that are so obvious to us. Those who have found the Lord on the basis of far less light than we have received, will on the last day say to us, If I believed the message I heard, how much more should you have believed, and we will have not answer to this charge.