Freedom

While spiritual independence may or may not be a goal worth striving for, depending mostly on the definition of the term, there is another related ideal that is certainly worth striving for: Freedom. In a way, our whole mortal experience is a battle for freedom, as Satan tries to take away our freedom, and God gives us guidelines for how we can retain it. Some people mistakenly believe that following the adversary lets us exercise more freedom and that God's commandments are too restrictive, but they aren't thinking far enough ahead. God is the one who wants to give us as much power and freedom as we can responsibly handle, and the enemy is the one who ultimately wants to bind us down. Every time we choose to follow God rather than Satan, we choose freedom, and the end result is that we'll have more freedom than we can currently imagine. Our freedom to choose is one of our most powerful tools, and it's a large part of the stakes we're fighting for. That's why it's so important to continue to fight for it.