Wednesday in the 4th Week of Lent: Letter 23
The Scripture Lessons for today are HERE! Letter 23 opens with Screwtape continuing to complain about “this girl and her disgusting family.” The Patient is getting to know more and more intelligent Christians which makes it quite impossible to remove Christianity from his life. It is time for a new approach. Rather than REMOVING, Wormwood should move to CORRUPTING. Screwtape says: The World and the Flesh have failed us; a third Power remains. And success of this third kind is the most glorious of all. A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician makes better sport in Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee. A “debauchee” would be a person give to excessive indulgence in pleasures of the senses. Now before we continue, I want say that this Letter 23 is very dense and if it seemed confusing, don’t worry, I will walk us all through it. It deals primarily with the question, “Who is Jes...