Application #3 for what we have learned about pleasure...

God is the source of all good pleasure – the closer one gets to legitimate pleasure, the closer one gets to the heart of God

C.S. Lewis – The Screwtape Letters

The senior devil has instructed the junior devil on how to trip up an individual who seems to be straddling the line between God and self.

“Keep him from going over to the Enemy” was the charge given to the young imp.

Some days later the junior devil returned to the senior devil and reported that he had lost the man over completely to the “Enemy’s” side. Meaning that the individual had made a decision to become a follower of Jesus

“How did that happen?” roared the senior devil, “Could you not have seduced him?”

“No” came the reply “because he did two things that took him away from us.

First, every day he took a walk, not for the exercise but for the pure pleasure of it. Second, he decided to read a good book, not so that he might quote it to someone else but rather, for the pure pleasure of it. Between the walk and the good book, he came within the Enemy’s reach”