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This is a dynamic addition to our weekly classes where you the students get to discuss with each other ideas, insights and questions that come up after reading The Screwtape Letters each week. This will also allow me to post changes to class schedules and lecture notes. Please feel free to ask, reply, state ideas or thoughts, prayers on this site set up just for you! I ask that your comments be "ABC" About the subject and clear in thought, Brief, and Christ Centered.
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Chapter 13 amazes me because it was written during WWII and it is very relevant today. The last sentence is a key point to recognize as one of the enemy’s subtle ploys acting as a catalyst for so many dysfunctions in the modern day believer including me.
"The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.”
Apathy, lethargy and murmuring are visible behaviors in the Christian arena at least in the NE region. Looking at myself, even though I am a hyper focused, extremely detailed right brained personality, I fight against being ineffective in my personal life and in my responsibility as a believer trying to be in one accord with the church body for the sake of advancing the Lord’s Kingdom on Earth. Like most, I have been challenged with many little battles that take so much of my time and energy. I manage to work through many setbacks even many repeated times. In the onset of the battle, I know to and exercise diligent praying, praising and putting focus on being in Our Lord’s Will. When my efforts fail more times than I expect I get confused because the outcome was not positive but I persevere again and again until exhausted. Then I get discouraged. At this time, I temporarily slow down to a standstill, hoping the problem will just go away. Eventually, I remember the Lord’s promises and successes I have witnessed and move forward again resting on His Word.
Those set back times are horrid when I do not remember to rely on God first, only and no matter what before taking any appropriate action. Presenting my case to the Lord at each and every battle not just the first one of a long continuous string of trials will prove how He makes a way out possible in each impossible situation. I need to always remember after crossing the Jordan there were many more battles not just the one crossing into the Promised Land. In traveling through the hills and valleys, I need to gird up and expect more battles and not listen to the enemy’s hopeless and harassing whispers. Do this until the Messiah returns. (Deb Curtis)
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