I suffered from scrupulosity for about six months until, my confessor placed me under obedience. (The details aren’t important).
Afterward, I felt SO relieved. My obedience to him gave me freedom. I worked at getting over my scrupulosity—looking within myself and recognizing the root causes and working on ridding myself of those vices. Now, I can recognize scrupulosity when it rears its ugly head. My obedience to that confessor brought about a great spiritual healing.
God bless him! He knew what was best for me.
In the book Heliotropium: The Famous Classic on the Conformity of the Human Will to the Divine, the author, Father Jeremias Drexelius discusses several rules that help one in recognizing the Divine Will.
Rule number four speaks of obedience. On page 44 & 45, the book says, “Thus it pleases God that His Will be unfolded to man by man. And hence those admonitions which are so frequent–,“Seek counsel always of a wise man.” (Tobias 4, 18). “Do thou nothing without counsel, and thou shalt not repent when thou has done.” (Ecclus. XXXII. 24). “Be continually with a holy man, whose soul is according to thy own soul: and who, when thou shalt stumble in the dark, will be sorry for thee. And establish within thyself a heart of good counsel; for there is no other thing of more worth to thee than it. The soul of a holy man discovereth sometimes true things, more than seven watchmen that sit in a high place to watch. But above all these things, pray to the Most High, that he may direct thy way in truth.” (Ecclus. XXXVII. 15-19). In all matters, therefore, where there is doubt concerning the Divine Will, from no one must counsel be sought rather than from those to whom we have entrusted our conscience. And here it may generally be affirmed that the entire will of spiritual masters, or superiors, or those in any way set over us, is the Will of God, sin alone being excepted.”
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