If you would ask the average person what the Christian life consists in most would probably say something like, learning how to follow the commandments or becoming obedient to the will of God. Not many would echo St. Paul and say that the Christian life is about freedom. “For freedom Christ set us free.” The Apostle understood that we are driven by compulsions and desires that lead us away from our true selves. “For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do” (Romans 7:15). The Christian life, therefore, concerns itself with becoming free of all of those things which lead us astray. Instead of being driven by our needs we learn to be open to whatever God sends us.
