Do you ever pray? Do you neglect talking and communing with God? Is it a burden for you to spend time with God? Are you God's friend or his enemy? Do you ever take time to speak with God through your day? Do you sincerely love God?
If you had a son who lived in your house, and you kindly fed him and clothed him, but your boy told his friends at school, "I never spend time with or speak to my father; my father speaks to me, but I ignore him, I never listen to him: I live in his house and take advantage of all the good things he provides me, but I don't think about him, and I treat him as if he were dead." This unthankful son has an animosity toward his father. Likewise, if you live without speaking to God, or you neglect listening to Him speak to you through His words, your heart is surely dead in sins, dead to God, and you have a carnal mind which is enmity against God. Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon HIM while He is Near.
And suppose you were separated from your father, and he wrote you comforting and encouraging letters, but you never opened them and read them. You took no notice of his love, and did not bother to read his messages to you. You received many letters, but you had nothing to do with them. Maybe you and your father are enemies, and there is no affection in your heart towards him. But your father's letters were seeking peace with you, and he desired to do you good. Your father's letters said if you are ever in need or danger, that he would help you. They were kind and affectionate letters seeking reconciliation between the two of you. The letters were meant to benefit you, but you didn't care about them, even to open them. If this is the case, then you must despise your father heartily for some reason.
But think about it friend, this is your very conduct towards the letters to you from God found in the Holy Bible. The blessed Holy Bible is filled with love letters to you from God Himself, He is the Great Father, yet you do not read them or care about what He says to you. There must be enmity in your heart toward God. Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read.
