How to be Truly Free

So let’s discuss freedom more, since it is so fundamentally misunderstood. Truest freedom is in aligning ourselves with the will of God. In terms of pertinent scriptures, freedom cannot be seen as some right to be asserted over others. For Paulus, given his direct line to Jesus, freedom was in being a servant to all and he spoke of love as the greatest gift bestowed, upon others of course but also especially ourselves as we recognise actions in accordance with the divine plan. Freedom then is not about doing what we want but about living according to what is right, as guided by God’s unchanging will, His Word.

Freedom is not some imaginary absence of constraints but the presence of purpose that transcends our own inconsequential desires and aspirations. To be able to recognise good and then do it is to live as close to harmony with the divine order as we can, a truth that Paulus understood so deeply that he framed the very essence of faith, by his own actions, in ceaseless prayer and choosing to be the servant to all. This is why freedom, in its truest form, cannot be found in material wealth or personal ambition but in the alignment of our actions with God’s will. It is not about escaping the world but about transforming it through acts of love, humility, and service, as Christ and Paulus did, which means even if people do not listen and are faithless.

Even in moments of doubt or failure, there is divine purpose at work and it requires you to look past your doubt and analyse your failures carefully. Our lives are not separate from God’s plan but are part of it, creation’s veins flowing with lifeblood. The purpose is not to seek personal glory or power but to choose aligning self to God, even to the point of suffering and death.

Few now live according to the divine will, with most scoffing at such ideas. How can you know divine will? Well we could start from many angles here but we could also define what it is not: it is not in selfish human ambitions and it cannot be in repeating the same errors as we already have. It certainly cannot be in any extremes, outside of correction to extreme bad, but this just serves moderation. In fact, the Structural Virtues Theory is built up around the concepts of moderating behaviours to support a spiritual life, and attaining to God’s will.

To truly understand freedom is to embrace the practice of prayer and crucifying the self. This is only enabled by motive in elevational moderation and reason attainable solely through deeper spiritual attachment. Willingness to live with humility and grace requires the desire to renounce our own ambitions. By falling back into our own ambitions we forget how to live according to God’s will. Cycles of selfishness are never ending and can never lead to any lasting happiness wonder? The mysteries in this world investigated compel us toward truth and wonder, and only through moderating the extremes and striving toward God can we understand the deeper meaning of our life’s existence.