Obedience 2: Obedience and freedom
Obedience and freedom God created us free. Freedom is a gift of God, a necessary one, that can never be denied to anyone. Without freedom the person cannot make the important choices in life, and especially there cannot be true love. Love can only be true when is free. Many people say that obedience and freedom are not compatible, and therefore obedience is wrong. This idea comes from a wrong understanding of the word “freedom”. If obedience is first of all to do the will of God, and freedom is the greatest gift of God, how can they be in contradiction? The word freedom is often understood as “to do whatever a person likes”. This is a very wrong definition. This mistake comes from the libertarian ideas that started after the French Revolution in the XVIII century. The real meaning of the word freedom is “to be always in the condition to make the right choices for what is really the best for the person, his family and the society”; or “That all obstacles may be removed that ...