Modern man thinks of obedience as weakness, as something fit only for the fearful or uncreative. In truth, obedience is an act of mercy — both received and given. When a man obeys God, he stops demanding that life serve his will. He accepts the limits that keep him safe. Every commandment is a boundary drawn by love: do not lie, so that you can see clearly; do not lust, so that you can love rightly; do not hate, so that your heart remains alive. These are not restrictions but protections. Disobedience always begins in pride — the belief that man knows better than his Creator. Yet each rebellion soon proves costly. The freedom it promises collapses into confusion and exhaustion. Only obedience restores order. It gives the conscience rest, because the soul no longer has to invent its own truth. The highest obedience is voluntary. Christ Himself became obedient unto death, not because He was forced, but because He loved perfectly. To obey in small things — prayer, honesty, duty — is to let that same mercy reshape us. Through obedience, man becomes sane again.