Screwtape Letter 15

Letter 15 was the most interesting to me. The concept of living in the future and not the eternal or present. Satan does seem to get us in this aspect, for we have fear and uncertainty of the future and this is what in the end leads us to stray.
This is part of why I think college students are away from God. We aren't under the supervision of parents and free to make our own choices. Along with this we are busy worrying and planning for our futures. This particularly effects me, as I am a senior and am constantly worrying about the future and what the next step I take will be. I fear and am excited for the future, and do try to not think of it, but then the questions of whats next arise and I'm set back. It is hard to think of God and be mindful of God when looking to the future.

Screwtape Letters 8-11

After reading these letters, I choose to write on letter eight. I thought it to be the most amusing and telling. Screwtape is constantly chastising his nephew, and laying the whole situation out on the line, in a blatantly obvious fashion. He lays out exactly how God wants to capture the hearts of man and how the Devil just wants to capture man. They are in it to basically get the human as food; God on the completely opposite hand wants to not absorb the human but to have their wills be in uniform with his. Screwtape states how they are empty and want to be filled by the humans they take over, and God is full and flows over. The best distinction and one most awe striking to me is how he stated God wants the world full of beings united to him but still distinct. In accord with him but still individuals. It just seeks to solidify my faith, as I read on this. That is what I want to be an individual but still in accord with God, not just taken over as food for the Devil. This whole letter just really makes one think what they want, and how the Devil uses his trickery to take one over.