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Please Consider a Shocking Truth that Bunyan Came to Understand about Himself: He was "A Child of Disobedience"! Please Start Your New Year with This Consideration!

A Devotional Thought for January 1, 2025

From the Pen of John Bunyan

Entitled

"A Child of Disobedience"

“. . . [And] they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the Devil, after being captured by Him to do His will” 2 Timothy 2:26.

As for my own natural life, for the time that I was without God in the world, it was indeed according to the course of this world, and “the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Eph 2:2,3). It was my delight to be “taken captive by the devil at his will” (2 Tim 2:26).

So settled and rooted was I in these things, that they became as a second nature to me; the which, as I also have with soberness considered since, did so offend the Lord, that even in my childhood he did scare and frighten me with fearful dreams, and did terrify me with dreadful visions; for often, after I had spent this and the other day in sin.

I was greatly afflicted and troubled with the thoughts of the day of judgment, and that both night and day, and should tremble at the thoughts of the fearful torments of hell fire; still fearing that it would be my lot to be found at last amongst those devils and hellish fiends, who are there bound down with the chains and bonds of eternal darkness, “unto the judgment of the great day.”

In these days, the thoughts of religion were very grievous to me; I could neither endure it myself, nor that any other one should; so that, when I have seen some read in those books that concerned Christian piety, it would be as it were a prison to me. Then I said unto God, “Depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge of thy ways” (Job 21:14). I was now void of all good consideration, heaven and hell were both out of sight and mind; and as for saving and damning, they were least in my thoughts.

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