Click below to listen to this post about the enemy’s lies on the Candidly Kendra podcast:
My son Kai and I have been reading The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis together.
Can I just say on the record right now that I absolutely love the way C. S. Lewis saw the world and shared his perspectives with us? I will be one of the millions standing in line for coffee with “Jack” Lewis in Heaven.
Anyways, in last week’s Tuesday Talk I talked about our Singing Creator.
But this week I want to flip the coin and talk about our Deceptive Enemy. Lewis suggested five ways that the enemy lies to us to try to lure us away from God.
Listen to the YouTube video above to hear about The Enemy’s Top 5 Big Lies.
The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)
[…] See Part 1: Singing Along With The Creator See Part 2: The Enemy’s Top 5 Big Lies […]
[…] See Part 2: The Enemy’s Top 5 Big Lies See Part 3: The Tears and Truth of our Compassionate Savior […]
I’ve been listening to Narnia in the car, and I got to that part the other day. I thought about the same thing. And look at the emotionally-charged words the Witch uses to twist everything around in Digory’s mind!
The deception and lies, and what Digory goes through, remind me of a quote from THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS (which, if anyone reads this who doesn’t know the book, is written as letters from a senior devil to a junior devil, so of course God is considered the enemy), which, I think is worth reading that whole book for:
“Be not deceived, Wormwood: our [Satan’s] cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
Oh, my goodness, Mary, I love that book so much! Thank you for reminding me about that beautiful quote. I guess maybe the trick is to remember what I know is true about God even when it doesn’t feel true.