If you haven't read The Screwtape Letters by C.s. Lewis, I would highly recommend it. For the Christian, it is an invaluable look into how we so easily fall away for the things God has for us in exchange for things that have no eternal value, junk. It is a series of letters from a head demon, Screwtape, to his underling and nephew, Wormwood. Each letter is a response to an assumed letter from the nephew, detailing ways to make the new Christian stumble. It is a bit hard to get your mind around first because it refers to God as "the Enemy" and the devil as "our father". But once you get past that it is an easy, fun, yet convicting read. I have included several quotes to spark interest; let me know if you'd like to borrow my copy...
--Matt
As long as he does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance.
And all the time the joke is that the word 'Mine' in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either Our Father or the Enemy will say 'Mine' of each of the things that exists, and specially of each man.
As you ought to have known, the asphyxiating cloud which prevented your attacking the patient on his walk back from the old mill, is a well-known phenomenon. It is the Enemy's most barbarous weapon, and generally appears when He is directly present to the patient under certain modes not yet fully classified. Some humans are permanently surrounded by it and therefore inaccessible to us.
Thus we have more many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females...
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