This morning I picked up “Plan B” by Pete Wilson and re-read this account and immediately thought it was pertinent to so many of us.

The masterful C.S. Lewis during his classic The Screwtape Letters, paints a picture of senior demon, Screwtape, educating a junior devil, Wormwood, on how to tempt a human “client.”  In one particular letter Screwtape explains the tactic of using a human’s fatigue during a time of trail to persuade the man to give up:

Only a couple of friends of mine know just how much I hate going to the grocery store.   It’s to the point that I listen to music through head phones to distract me from it.  Last week, I had a moment which opened up my eyes to why I hate the store so much.  

As I sat down to check my email, I was amazed to see I had received an email from (we’ll call him “Mike”). I had no idea why he was emailing, and after the week I had had, I couldn’t take another difficult and trying situation.  Yet, after opening it, turns out, He was reaching out to me, now living in another country, to forgive me.  He had read my blog and heard a few messages I had preached, and wanted to communicate to me that he no longer had any bitterness in his heart towards me whatsoever.  Keep in mind, this was completely without me pursuing him, or attempting to reach him at any level.

I hadn’t slept all night, and less than 24 hours earlier, I had been fired, threatened, terminated and commanded to leave the church and positions I occupied.