August 25, 2012 – Catechism 1739 – 1748

It is sometimes hard to understand where doing God’s will and having free will meet and don’t contradict each other.  The argument is that if you are doing God’s will, you are not acting on your own free will but allowing another’s will to lead you.  But, if you understand that God is perfect and that He only wants good for you and created you for a specific purpose, why wouldn’t you want to do what He wants you to do.  But it is simple to explain if you look at a child’s relationship to his parents.  If the child chooses to follow the rules, does that mean he didn’t do it of his own free will.  I don’t think so.  If he continues to follow the rules (assuming the rules are legitimate in the house) the entire house should be a place of growing love and unity.  If he disobeys the rules there will be “confusion and delay”.  (Anybody that has young boys knows that is Sir Topham Hatt)  If the child realizes that the house and his life is better if I follow the rules, is that taking away from his free will at all.  No.