Frailty and Ignorance

"The only thing that equals man's frailty is man's ignorance." ~A.W. Tozer

And I think I would add to this that no where is man's ignorance most displayed than in his lack of acknowledgement and awareness of his own frailty.  It is a vicious circle: man is weak, we are, as David said, "but a step away from death" (1 Sam 20:3).  And yet most of us live our lives as if we will never die.  The fact that death is the end of all men rarely enters into our conscious and even more rarely does it impact the way we live.  It is in this ignorance that most men toil away.  We chase after meaningless things, spending entire lifetimes building kingdoms, some large and some small, that will ALL vanish in the blink of an eye.  Seriously, all in the blink of an eye.  One day I will close my eyes and when they open all that will be left is me naked before almighty God.  And this is another point where the ignorance of man is displayed in full.  

My statement that one day we will stand before God is most often met with an attitude of indifference.  And this is the height of man's ignorance.  Men shrug that one day we will stand before God because God is, at best, and ethereal being floating around somewhere who has little to no impact on their lives.  He is, in the words of David Wells, "a weightless entity."  They assume that they will stand before God but who cares, God will accept them, warts and all, because they have learned to accept themselves, warts and all.  This is a dangerous place to be for this is a soul unaware of the rebellion that lives in their heart and the fact that the severity of that rebellion is measured by the worthiness of the one whom they have offended. God is infinitely worthy and thus rebellion against him is infinitely wicked.  And yet in ignorance man continues to rebel because the fact that humans are frail and a step away from being naked before God does not often enter into the minds of men.