Consequences

So I'm rereading the Star Wars New Jedi Order series and stumbled across this today. It's from Dark Tide I: Onslaught. Mara is the lady who married Luke Skywalker and Anakin is Han and Leia's youngest son. This is about 25 years after Episode IV A New Hope. They are discussing using the Force for trivial matters, like setting up tents and hauling crates from their ship. Mara is trying to teach Anakin that it's wrong to use the Force just because you are able to use it.

"If you start thinking that you know the best for people and denying them the chance to make their own errors. . . "
Breath hissed in between Anakin's teeth. "Using the Force becomes easy, and if you are confident you know what is right, you're making yourself the center of reality. That's just selfish, and selfishness is the core of evil, of the dark side."
Mara walked to him and threw an arm over his shoulders. "That's very good, Anakin. We have to be responsible for ourselves, our actions and responsible to society. Usurping someone else's personal responsibility, though, denies them their sentience. It's right and good to help someone who cannot help himself, but forcefully shielding them from the consequences of their actions, no matter how foolish, is wrong.

It's just interesting to me how it goes so well with my earlier post. It's so very much like God and how He lets us make mistakes. He doesn't shield us from our consequences (even though He easily could) because that would take away from what it is that makes us human. Our love for Him can't be forced or it's not really love.