Maximum Happiness

Maximum Happiness!!!

This afternoon as I was glancing a book called You by Fulton J. Sheen, I was thrilled with the insight that was in the book. Fulton’s uses down to earth example here to convey something transcendent. Hope you too enjoy and gain from this message...

“Anyone who gives freedom to another assumes great risks, whether it be a parent to a child or a Creator to a creature. In a certain sense, even God took a great risk when He made man free, for the very freedom to become a child of God implied the possibility of becoming a rebel.

Since God made us free to choose what is right, we are also free to choose the wrong. We too often interpret freedom as the right to break God’s commandments. When you buy an automobile, the manufacturer will give you a set of instructions. He will tell you the pressure to which you ought to inflate you tires, the kind of oil your ought to use in the crankcase, and the proper fuel to put in the gas tank really, he has nothing against you because he gives you these instructions, as God had nothing against you in giving you His commandment. The manufacturer wants to be helpful: he is anxious that you get the maximum utility out of the car. And God is more anxious that you get the maximum happiness out of life. That is why He gives you commandments.