A few Appetizers

To start and give you a taste of what I discovered in this short reading take a few minutes and read below.

Screwtape’s 6^th letter on page 28, “He [God] wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.”

In the 5^th letter uncle Screwtape is writing to his young tempter in training nephew Wormwood. Screwtape says, “And how disastrous for us is the continual remembrance of death which war enforces. One of our best weapons, contented worldliness, is rendered useless. In wartime not even a human can believe that he is going to live forever.” Page 27.

The Fourth Letter on page 22-23, “I have known cases where what the patient called his ‘God’ was actually located—up and to the left at the corner of the bedroom ceiling, or inside his own head, or in a crucifix on the wall. But whatever the nature of the composite object, you must keep him praying to it—to the thing that he has made, not to the Person who has made him…Once all his thoughts and images have been flung aside or, if retained, retained with a full recognition of their merely subjective nature, and the man trusts himself to the completely real, external, invisible Presence, there with him in the room and never knowable by him as he is known by it—why, then it is that the incalculable may occur. In avoiding this situation__this real nakedness of the soul in prayer—you will be helped by the fact that>>page 23 the humans themselves do not desire it as much as they suppose. There’s such a thing as getting more than they bargained for!

Your affectionate uncle

SCREWTAPE”

These quotes are but a few of the many that really opened my mind to my own thinking and the enemy’s schemes/tendencies.