Day Six...

Yeah, I would've posted a few minutes earlier, but I'm addicted to The Godfather video game for X-Box, and I couldn't pull myself away from protecting the Don at the hospital. Day six has come and gone. Today, I refrained from the usual 2-4 cups of cappaccino that I would usually get for free at church, plus the bagel that always waits for me each Sunday. Instead, I enjoyed a nice diet mountain dew, and treated myself to a subway sandwich after church. I made sure to overload it with vegetables. It's been a great feeling leaving the meal satisfied as opposed to bloated.

The last few days I've been reminded of an instance in the famous classic writing of C.S. Lewis. This next except is from the first letter in "The Screwtape Letters". Screwtape is a senior demon writing a letter to his nephew Wormwood, who is a young demon, giving him advice for how to handle mankind.

One day, as he sat reading, I saw a train of thought
in his mind beginning to go the wrong way. The Enemy, of course, was at his
elbow in a moment. Before I knew where I was I saw my twenty years' work
beginning to totter. If I had lost my head and begun to attempt a defence by
argument I should have been undone. But I was not such a fool. I struck
instantly at the part of the man which I had best under my control and suggested
that it was just about time he had some lunch. The Enemy presumably made the
counter-suggestion (you know how one can never quite overhear What He says to
them?) that this was more important than lunch. At least I think that must have
been His line for when I said "Quite. In fact much too important to tackle it
the end of a morning", the patient brightened up considerably; and by the time I
had added "Much better come back after lunch and go into it with a fresh mind",
he was already half way to the door.

Basically, Screwtape told Wormwood, that one of the ways to pull us away from God was to get our minds off of God by telling us that we are hungry. It's insanely on the money at times, because how often are we in church while the pastor is preaching, and we're wondering if we'll get out in time to beat the Methodists to the Cracker Barrel??? (I find Methodists aren't as big of a threat for me at Cracker Barrel as much as Senior Bus Tours...) Just some food for thought. Thank you guys for all your encouragement!!

Matthew 4:4
Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.' "

God Bless!
Rich Jones
www.richjonescomedy.com