In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis provides a series of lessons in the importance of taking a deliberate role in living out Christian faith by portraying a typical human life, with all its temptations and failings, as seen from devils' viewpoints. Screwtape holds an administrative post in the bureaucracy ("Lowerarchy") of Hell, and acts as a mentor to Wormwood, the inexperienced tempter. In the body of the thirty-one letters which make up the book, Screwtape gives Wormwood detailed advice on various methods of undermining faith and promoting sin in the Patient, interspersed with observations on human nature and Christian doctrine. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwtape_Letters)
Grace and peace be yours in abundance,
Bruce
Father, we're abundantly grateful for our home dwellings here on earth where we find pleasure, companionship, comfort, rest and food.
If we're not intentional, we will give more time and affection to our temporal home than our future eternal home.
Perhaps it's because we're living in the here and now and the future seems so distant and unfamiliar.
Help us not to fear the future nor foolishly think it will not come, but to embrace it so that we are prepared when that moment comes.
May our heart's yearning, our primary focus, and our physical labors also have heavenly goals each day as we seek to live for You daily.
In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen.
(http://adailyprayer.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/a-prayer-of-thanks-for-our-eternal-home/)
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