The natural law gives us the happiness key

Cláudio Bueno da Silva, author of the special entitled Moral as agent of transformation, one of the highlights of this edition, writes about the self-mastery and the impact of the moral of the Christ and the spirit doctrine in the formation of a new man.

We draw the reader's attention to this excerpt from his article:

What are you looking for on Earth, anyway? Happiness, peace, justice, brotherhood? The answer to question 614 of The Spirits’ Bookserenely explains this question: "The natural law is the law of God; It is the only one necessary to man's happiness; It tells what to do or not to do, and he only becomes unhappy because he moves away from it."

Another stimulus in this sense comes from the answer to question 930, in the same book: "The social order founded on justice and solidarity will settle when man practices the law of God."

As it is clearly stated in the text reproduced above, the natural law is the law of God, which, according to the spirit teachings, is written in the conscience of each of its creatures.

It is not, therefore, by mere coincidence that it is in the field of consciousness that we wage the battle between our evil tendencies and the incipient virtues, a struggle from which we do not always win.

The difficulty we have in this desideratum is more common than we think, and even prominent figures in the history of Christianity, like Paul of Tarsus, were immune to it.

In a well-known letter addressed to the Romans, the apostle of the Gentiles wrote:

Because I do not do the good I want, but the evil that I do not want this I do. Now if I do what I will not, I will not do it, but the sin that dwells in me. (Romans 7: 19-20)

Paul's testimony confirms how hard it is to fight against the old man we bring in us.

Difficult, yes, but not impossible, as he would reveal years later in an epistle addressed to the Galatians, from which we extract this verse:

I'm already crucified with Christ; And I live, no longer me, but Christ lives in me; And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)

Anyone who has read about the perils that have involved the life and work of Paul of Tarsus certainly knows the cost by which the apostle arrived at the condition described by him in the letter above.

The observance of God’s law is therefore without discussion the requirement that will put us in the path of true happiness.

To follow God’s law is to act in an irreproachable way, observing one's own conscience, comparing one's behavior and establishing a parallel between the desire to be right and the action perpetrated.

However, troubled our thoughts are, the freedom to choose and decide our steps always belongs to us, since free will is the prerogative of thinking beings.

As long as man seeks consolation in the external world and not in God, he will live in bewilderment and in the wind, cultivating vanity and seeking the fulfillment of his desires, even the unconfessable ones.

Of course, the more centered and more focused on the pursuit of virtue, the more conformed to God's law will be, aware that the deviation of the route will have as consequences stagnation, suffering and loss of opportunities for growth and elevation, which is the main goal of our presence in the world.