But free will isn't free.
I remember going to the grocery store with my grandmother one time, and she was pretty angry when she got to the register with a new brand of fabric softener called Free! and she was expected to pay for it. I'm sure that my grandmother wasn't the only misguided consumer who was told that Free! was the name of the fabric softener, and not the price. It seems odd that they would charge for something called Free!, but that's exactly what they did. I don't think it was a very successful marketing scheme. . . .lol.
Free will is the same way. We may call it "free will," but there is nothing free about it, for there is a very high price to pay for the ability to make choices about who we choose to be, how we choose to live, and and what we choose to do with our spiritual house. I've also been thinking a lot about free will -vs- God's will.
I have to start at the basic level, because the truth is that I don't really know what "God's will" really means. However, on a biological level, I do know what God's will for me is, because that truth is encoded as my DNA, that amazingly mysterious information that creates my physical form and regulates every single biochemical process in my body. My DNA is God's will for my biological self. . . .it's the "me" that God creates out of earth and animates in spirit.
So free will in terms of this part of God's will is pretty clear. I never liked that God willed me to have dark hair, so over the years I colored it the color that I wanted. I also didn't like the crooked teeth that God willed for my too small mouth, so I opposed God's will again by getting braces in my teens. I could also argue that every time I have cut my hair into uniquely personal styles I have exerted my free will over God's will, because God created my hair to grow, and not necessarily into a very flattering style. These may seem like simple or ridiculous examples of free will over God's will, but that is exactly what it is, only we don't think of these personal choices in terms of being in opposition of God's will.
Another example of God's will in my life is how my DNA is created with specific genetic sequences that predispose me to getting cancer, which means that I could argue that cancer is actually part of God's will for me. So does that mean that every time I fight the cancer in my body or fight against the presence of cancer in my life that I sin against and oppose God's will for me? Because if that's true, then I don't really care if I fight God's will, for there are little things that I do every single day in attempt to circumvent this part of God's will in my biology. My DNA also has other undesireable biological traits, all of which I also fight on a daily basis (like my unique genetic predispositions to aging, wrinkled skin, higher cholesterol, and brittle bones), but I don't have a problem with fighting any of this, either.
But I am more than earth, more than just the biology that God wills for me, as I am also spirit with purpose. And this is more the part of our nature when people talk about aligning themselves with God's will. But I will need to think more upon this before I can say much more. Suffice it (for now) that I am perfectly at peace with imposing my free will over God's will in terms of my biology with the lifestyle choices that I make. . . .and the rest is working itself out.