True Freedom

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Nowadays it is very common to hear many people refer to freedom of choice or free will. as if they were synonims of freedom or liberty. But, if we reflect upon it a little bit, we might reach the comprehension that, if fact, they are quite different things. For starters, free choice or free will are not subjected neither to the conscience nor the Divine Law in the first place, and therefore, it can be used irresponsibly, at the point to make it become libertinage. Thus we see how free will is misused and overused in all orders of human life, wheter in its spiritual and moral aspects or in its material ones. The free will, just as the will, could be used in both ways, either in evil or in good. Freedom or liberty, in the other hand (true freedom that is), is closely related with the conscience and with the Divine Law, since all true liberty emerges from the truth. "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Jn 8:32 To better illustrate this, let's take a very common and extended vice: Cigarrette smoking. Those who have acquired this popular vice, will normally say that they smoke because they decided so, in full use of their "freedom". That alleged freedom (which is nothing else that their free will, pure and raw), makes them fall in slavery, even them knowing very well that smoking is very damaging to their health and that sooner or later will carry them fatal consequences. How great should their effort be in order to free them from that obstinate vice! They are slaves, they are far from be free. And there you have the great paradox of all: In use of an apparent freedom, they have ended losing their true freedom, falling in a libertinage that harms them, going as far to deprive them from their health and life. How different it is, rather, when the human being uses in a conscient and responsible way, his faculties to decide and to do! "The true spirituality is freedom of your spirit along his pathway and for your flesh along its travel; that your body does not invade the inroads of the spirit nor that your spirit converts himself to materialism. "Submit your free will to My Law and to your conscience, and you will not feel slaves, but truly free." The Third Testament