What do I mean by that? In other words, God isn't holding our hand and pushing us through the doors he wants us to go through. We have free will. He let's us make decisions, wrong or right. He wants us to make decisions, wants us to use what we've learned from His word to make those decisions, and He doesn't want us to be always depending on Him for a clear, precise answers because it's not always going to happen that way.

The best example of free will I can think of is the story of Jonah. Let me briefly summarize the story: Jonah is a great prophet. God wants Jonah to go to Ninevah, Jonah says no, goes to the other end of the known world, gets swallowed by a fish and realizes that God reallys wants him to go to Ninevah so he does. Preaches the word, people accept it, then Jonah sits on a high spot to observe Ninevah expecting God to destroy it. God doesn't, because the Ninevah people repented so He forgave them. The story ends with Jonah lamenting that he was ever born.

Jonah did NOT want to go to Ninevah to preach the word because he hated those sinners. God did want him to go, but God let Jonah make the choice to go to the other end of the world. Sure, God still made Jonah be swallowed by a enormous fish to convince the prophet to finally go to Ninevah, but He never forces the prophet to see things God's way. In other words, even though Jonah does go preach the word, and the Ninevahites accept it, Jonah was still upset in the end because God kept His promise and forgave the people of Ninevah. Jonah was expecting to see divine destruction, and got nothing. This is the example of free will: Jonah still makes two very important choices. The first being not to go to Ninevah, and even though he got swallowed by a fish, he could have still stayed in the belly of the beast and suffered. The second choice was not accepting that God forgives everyone, no matter how sinful. God doesn't force Jonah to accept this, and lets the prophet cry alone in the desert.