Our small group is currently reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. I have really enjoyed reading this book again and discussing it. The original, descriptive language Lewis uses easily holds the reader's interest and theological points to discuss abound in this book. Here is a quote in the 6th letter from Screwtape to his nephew, Wormwood (both are devils working to drive humans away from 'the Enemy' aka God).
"We want him to be in the maximum uncertainty, so that his mind will be filled with contradictory pictures of the future, every one of which arouses hope or fear. There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them."
yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." James 4:14-15
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yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." James 4:14-15
