Screwtape Letters

Well here is another one of my many school assignments for you. :) The assignment this time was to write a letter posing as Michael the Archangel giving advice to a novice angel down on earth ,assigned to help a human in their Christian life. The assignment was inspired by the novel The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, which is a collection of letters written by a head demon, (Screwtape), to a novice demon down on earth, giving him advice on how to turn a human away from God. Very interesting book and interesting assignment. This is one of my shorter papers so I'm only using one blog to share it with you. Here is the letter I came up with.


Dear Trojus,
As your angel mentor, I was delighted to hear that you have been given a human on earth to watch over and lead to the good side which we are serving. You have been given a particularly difficult case, if my discernment is correct, and hopefully I will be able to give you some sound advice as to what to do from here. This young man is not a Christian, but seeing as to his young years you will have a better chance of converting him than if he was well advanced in years. The longer humans go without knowing the Father, the harder it is for them to be converted and the older they become the more they hate change in any form.
This young man grew up in church and in a Christian atmosphere, but when he left home to attend college he got into bad company and slowly began to turn away from his already weak Christian faith. Obviously the demon assigned to this young man has been working hard to use these friends to drag him away from the Father. This young man is easily swayed by his friends, and his demon obviously took great advantage of this fact. My advice to you is allow him to come into contact with a good Christian young man at the college who he already looks up to and admires in a way. Make sure that the young men at first become friends, and that your human looks up to him as a role model. Then have the Christian man slowly begin to influence your man towards the Christian faith. Make sure this is gradual, however. If the Christian man rushes into this too fast, then your man will simply think he is too "pushy" and will tend to start avoiding him. The demons will take advantage of this and try to make this Christian young man come off as "pushy" in anyway they can. Make sure you guard carefully against this, or things might go dreadfully wrong.
Another thing you might want to correct is this young man’s obsession with the future or things to come. The demon in charge of him is always taking advantage of this, making this young man very difficult to get along with. He never enjoys himself or the present and is always worrying about what will come next. The demon is trying to strengthen this by making this man worry all the more, thus weakening his faith in the Father. It’s your job to strengthen that faith again. Make sure he starts attending a solid church again, and plant the idea in his head that since there is nothing he can do about the future at the moment, why should he worry about it? Help him to realize that since the Father is the only one who knows anything about the future, this man needs to place his faith in him so he won’t have to be frightened of the future any longer. Obviously the demon will try his hardest to counteract this, so you must be on your best guard. Make sure that this young man is not overwhelmed by this demon’s advances, plant the right ideas in his head, and this man will be on the road back to the Father if all goes well. Do write me back and let me know how things are going so I can possibly be of further assistance to you.
Sincerely yours,
Michael