"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Nice, but I think the believer's version of this might be "The best - most effective - trick the devil pulls is making you forget that the lies he puts into your mind are lies, or even that they're in your mind at all." Thought about that - those - a lot today. Had a nice (un?)blinding spotlight shone on them; had Birbiglia-style wave after wave of metaphors come over me helping me to understand the state I was in (the slowly and contentedly boiling frog; being choked by a knot of python-like jungle weeds) as well as to fumble with, seize, analyze and (re-)start believing (trusting) things I hadn't even noticed I had not been believing. "USE YOUR BRAIN." Sovereignty. "Knows, Wants, Can." The lies, and my unconscious belief itself in them more than in God, do not rate as even the most trifling challenges to Him and thus not only can He dispatch them but it is His desire and pleasure to do so. So though I might not (if anything provably should not) trust myself, I choose to trust that. Also, had a question answered. All so good.