People will worship. They will bow down in homage to a person or a thing; perhaps to some idol of themselves. They will obey, and they will be all the more basely obedient, they will fawn and flatter all the more, as their god is false and foolish.
Man is never cut free from obedience, heeding his own will alone; that is only to say that man does not create himself. The question is whether he will worship God, the Creator who made him to be free as an obedient son is free, raising himself by obedience into greater responsibility and greater capacity for action; or a false god, one that promises freedom but claps the manacles on his mind and heart, and often enough on his hands as well.
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