People can be very forgetful about important things.
The great British preacher Charles Spurgeon once wrote: A man goes into an inn, and as soon as he sits down he begins to order…his dinner, his bed…He stays at the inn for some time. By and by, the bill comes due, and it takes him by surprise. "I never thought of that—[paying for all this!]" "Why," says the landlord, "here is a man who is either a born fool or else [a thief]! Never thought of reckoning--never thought of settling with me!"
Spurgeon goes on to say that this is how many people live---enjoying life, living day to day---with hardly ever a thought about the coming day of reckoning with the Lord described in
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment…