Commandments Give Us Freedom

As I was studying today, I found myself on the web site www.mormon.org. I love how they explain God's Plan of Happiness in simple terms. One thing that I thought of as I was reading was how the commandments are here to give us freedom and happiness. They do not restrict us or take away our right to choose. I thought of a conversation I had with a non-member a few years ago when we were discussing what was then Rick's College. He was complaining about some of the rules they had and said that the school didn't have a right to give us a curfew or tell us we couldn't drink or smoke. He looked at those rules as taking away our freedoms. I look at it as the total opposite. The choice comes when you decide to attend a school with those rules. You know what the rules are before you go there. If you are not willing to follow them, then go somewhere else. Those rules are there to help students follow God's Plan of HAPPINESS. Happiness is the key word. When we follow God's commandments, we open our lives to happiness because we don't have to face the negative consequences that come from breaking laws of the land or the commandments of God. What a blessing that is to us that God loved us enough to show us how to be able to return and live with Him. We just follow the commandments!