Status Updates From The Screwtape Letters

Phewwww… this one is dragging a little. Feels a tad lecture-ish at almost halfway through. Some letters are better than others for sure. The one just read about gluttony didn’t make much sense to me. Kinda feels a little nit picky with many human action perceived as “falling to temptations” when the one letter was talking about a guy who like getting streaks a specific restaurant.

Currently flabbergasted

Repetitive structure. Obviously this was a collections of satirical letters. However I see how each letter has its own small narrative and satirical objective. It creates a very loose but followable narrative of a specific man’s life and his temptations.

A big thing to remember is God is the only one to offer forgiveness and grace; the devil assuredly does not. When we put on the armor of God, and die to self, we are closer to Him and more readily protected from evil. If we do our best to be humble, we cannot be proud of that nor think of ourselves lowly. As someone says, "Humility is not thinking less of yourself but of yourself less."