These devotions are based on CS Lewis’ book The Screwtape Letters. The book is a series of letters written from a senior devil to his junior devil. They provide instruction for the junior devil on how to tempt the human he has been assigned.
“A thousand bawdy, or even blasphemous, jokes do not help towards a man’s damnation so much as his discovery that almost anything he wants to do can be done, not only without the disapproval but with admiration of his fellows, if only it can get itself treated as a Joke.” (Lewis)
My mom is a huge dog person. I cannot recall a time in my life where we did not have at least two dogs living at my house. There were a few occasions where she talked my dad into letting her have three. Currently, we have two dogs, Fargo and Manolo. Manolo is a large dog, weighing around 115lbs, and he loves food. On one occasion, my mom left him inside while an open rotisserie chicken was sitting on the counter… big mistake. Manolo has a passionate love for food, but he is not a fan of his heart-worm pills. Knowing these two things, my mom figured out an easy solution to Manolo’s reluctance to take his pills. She simply covers the pills in peanut butter, and they are gone in an instant. Humor is our peanut butter. We will approve of almost anything as long as it makes us laugh.
Crude humor is worshipped in modern America. There are countless TV shows and movies that have made millions of dollars off of turning the most perverse concepts into jokes. We must be very careful to guard ourselves against this deception. No matter how funny things may be, if they are contrary to God’s Word, Christians must not approve of them. The Bible uses strong language when discussing the relationship of believers to perverse topics.
“But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.” -Ephesians 5:3–4
My mom is a huge dog person. I cannot recall a time in my life where we did not have at least two dogs living at my house. There were a few occasions where she talked my dad into letting her have three. Currently, we have two dogs, Fargo and Manolo. Manolo is a large dog, weighing around 115lbs, and he loves food. On one occasion, my mom left him inside while an open rotisserie chicken was sitting on the counter… big mistake. Manolo has a passionate love for food, but he is not a fan of his heart-worm pills. Knowing these two things, my mom figured out an easy solution to Manolo’s reluctance to take his pills. She simply covers the pills in peanut butter, and they are gone in an instant. Humor is our peanut butter. We will approve of almost anything as long as it makes us laugh.
Crude humor is worshipped in modern America. There are countless TV shows and movies that have made millions of dollars off of turning the most perverse concepts into jokes. We must be very careful to guard ourselves against this deception. No matter how funny things may be, if they are contrary to God’s Word, Christians must not approve of them. The Bible uses strong language when discussing the relationship of believers to perverse topics.
“But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.” -Ephesians 5:3–4