God does not take human indifference lightly. It is not as if we do not have ample evidence of his presence with us, his approachability, and our need of him. He has placed men and women on earth, ‘that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us’ (Acts 17:27). He has made it clear that we should seek him, and worship him, and we alone of all creatures on earth have the capacity to do so. Not to do so is more than just making a difference choice among various options. Our whole existence is bound up with him, and our consciousness of ourselves includes an awareness of God. How can they not enquire after one who is so longsuffering, so generous, so extravagant in the display of his power set before their eyes in the heavens? How could a sick man in hospital not make enquiries about the stranger who brought him food each day? It should be obvious that that one is favourably inclined towards him, and will therefore welcome an approach. When men do not seek the Lord even though they receive so much from him, it is a sign that they wish to be separate from him, and have nothing to do with him. They know he is a holy God, and that in order to come to him they would have to conform to his ways, and they do not want that. So not to seek the Lord is as bad as turning away from him.