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  2/9/21 - 2 Corinthians 4:4 [NIV]  (posted on FB Feb 9, 2021) The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. - This is not a vindication of believers who imagine themselves to be the only right-thinking people in a truly hostile world. It is also a head's up to those believers who let the same enemy take them hostage too. If we feel discouraged or wounded by the victims of the devil who also encourages us to resent and hate those who hate us, then we become his victims too. - We can only display the same Glory of Christ who is the image of God – who is love – if we find love without judgment raised in us by the one who loved our enemies enough to die for them. I regret the imaginary dartboards I’ve fashioned in my mind with the face of human enemies who are so blinded by Satan they rejoice in the hurt and damage they have done in the name of their own imagine...

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

  I decided to go back and read The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan and found it online at  https://www.gutenberg.org/ files/131/131-h/131-h.htm There are also many download options, and versions for children, at one of my favorite free online reading sites. I am amazed to learn that it is the most published book in history after the Bible, and has always been in print since it was first published in 1678, or 343 years ago! I'm recommending it to my granddaughter, along with CS Lewis's Mere Christianity as two books she should read before going off to college a few years from now. Even though I read it more than 5 or 6 decades ago, it has come to mind many times over the years of my own 'progress'.

2/9/21 - 2 Corinthians 4:4 [NIV]

  2/9/21 - 2 Corinthians 4:4 [NIV] The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. - This is not a vindication of believers who imagine themselves to be the only right-thinking people in a truly hostile world. It is also a head's up to those believers who let the same enemy take them hostage too. If we feel discouraged or wounded by the victims of the devil who also encourages us to resent and hate those who hate us, then we become his victims too. - We can only display the same Glory of Christ who is the image of God – who is love – if we find love without judgment raised in us by the one who loved our enemies enough to die for them. I regret the imaginary dartboards I’ve fashioned in my mind with the face of human enemies who are so blinded by Satan they rejoice in the hurt and damage they have done in the name of their own imagined goodness. - And that is...