The Owner's Manual to Life

The Sermon on the Mount, moral law, and the laws of the Catholic Church are all the same things. The Sermon on the Mount is just God explaining our profoundly beautiful design.

It’s much less like the law’s of a government and more like the owner's manual of a car.

Imagine me reading the owner's manual of my car and flying into a rage: “Who does Ford think they are! This is my car, I own it. I am free to do whatever I want with my car. And you know how expensive gas is these days. But hey, wait, the grocery store down the street is selling kool-aid for 24 cents a gallon

So I use my freedom and my last fumes of gas

●      And I drive to the store and buy enough green kool-aid to make 15 gallons

●      and I put it in my gas tank.

Was I free to do this? Yes. But now what am I?

●      A pedestrian!

Ford wasn’t trying to deny my freedom by giving me the owner’s manual. Ford designed the car. They knew how it worked. Ford wanted me to know what I needed to do

●      so the car would reach its full potential.

●      So that I would be happy

●      And tell other people to buy a Ford

The moral law is a reflection of ourselves, of our design. If we break the moral law, we break our design, we break ourselves. But if the moral law seems impossible to do on your own, it is. You weren’t meant to go through life without the owner’s manual. But if we listen to the Word of God, live by his design, and let Him live through us, it is possible. And that is exactly how we were designed.