In C. S. Lewis’ classic
book, Screwtape Letters,
Screwtape, the senior demon,
writes to his nephew,
Wormwood, who was charged
with making sure
his “patient” does not
choose God, the Enemy.
Screwtape admits to
Wormwood that the Enemy
seems to really like the
humans,
but that sometimes He lets
them go their own way.
It totally boggles his mind
that even when they stumble,
God still loves the “little
vermin.”
His words offer such great
encouragement to us
as we go stumbling along
our way.
"The Enemy wants them
to learn to walk
and must therefore take
away His hand;
and if only the will to
walk is really there
He is pleased even with
their stumbles....
Our cause is never more in
danger than
when a human, no longer
desiring,
but still intending, to do
our Enemy's will,
looks round upon a universe
from which
every trace of Him seems to
have vanished,
and asks why he has been
forsaken,
and still obeys."
~ The Screwtape Letters
There are days when the
doubts and questions
loom larger than our faith.
But that is our problem,
not His.
He is only looking for the
will to walk with Him.
When I still can say, “Not
my will but Yours be done,”
regardless of what I see or
don’t see,
my perfect pitch pierces the
ears of His enemy.
Though I walk through the
valley, He is with me.
Though I stumble and fall,
He is for me.
For the LORD takes pleasure in His people;
Psalms 149:4
Who hasn’t stumbled that they can not know this
truth?
Who hasn’t received grace upon grace knowing that
the Lord may let go of our hand but never our
heart?
I will most likely stumble many more times
in this wild adventure with the One my heart loves,
but I rehearse the words that Screwtape mutters:
“He is pleased even with their stumbles.”
Stumbling on, receiving grace, surrending to His
will.
Moment by moment, over and over.
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