If you are a Christian long enough, you will most likely go through a wilderness experience. You might call it a dry time, spiritually speaking. It is a time when God seems so far away, but He assures us that He will never leave us or forsake us. In this chapter of the Screwtape letters, Wormwood's patient is going through one of these times. But, Screwtape cautions him because it is times like these that the Heavenly Father helps us grow!