An Answer

I find that when I am troubled it indicates that it is a good time for prayer. Listening for God's response to our prayers is sometimes difficult due to our own impatience, our tendency to supply our own answer or perhaps by other outside interference. Yet other times God places in our heart His answer. I asked a question about free will and the love of our Lord. God pointed out to me in ways only He can that whether we choose to act upon our "free will" or to do the "will of God", we are the one making the choice. We sometimes say flippantly "if it be the will of God". We know the will of God without question. We know it through His word, we know it through gifted knowledge of what is right or wrong.An answer... He does love us enough to let us choose. And when we choose wrong...He still loves us. Chapter 11 of the book of Hosea records God's words as..."When Israel was a child I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. But the more I called Israel, the further they went from me. They sacrificed to the Baals, and they burned incense to images. It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms; but they did not realize it was I who healed them. I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them."
God calls us out of our addiction. Sometimes we fail and move further away from Him. We worship the addiction instead of our Lord.We do not see His healing powers. We do not see that He has lifted the yoke from our neck. We do not see Him bend down to love us.