"God's Preference"

"He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom He loved. Selah." (Psalms 47:4) How do we walk out the purposes of God? I know we have free will, but God has designed a special purpose for each and every avenue of our lives. So how do we walk according to His perfect will? David was known as "A man after God's own heart", which was because he desired to know God and to walk according to His will; contrary to Saul, who walked in his own will, doing what he wanted to do, even to the point of death. How can anyone disobey a direct warning, and go to battle even when they are told that they will die if they do? What am I talking about? I am guilty of the same sort of stubborn actions; and I am sure must of us are guilty of the same. As a matter of fact, Adam did what God instructed him not to do, even though God said, "For in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die"; it doesn't get any plainer than that! The funny thing is, that Samuel's ghost told Saul, "and tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me", knowing full well that Saul was going to do what he wanted to do anyway, no matter what the warning might have been. Much like Adam, I believe that we all know when we are not being obedient to God's will for our lives; we just choose to ignore the direction that God is leading us, thinking that our way is better, even if it is only better for the moment. Oddly enough, God can still make something from our wrong choices, it's just that His ways are always unscathed and anointed, while our ways always end up in the ditch, where God graciously picks us up and patches our wounds. Unfortunately, our wrong choices usually cause damage that spreads beyond just us; they also can effect the lives of countless other people also. We have no idea how our actions, good or bad, can change the way someone else might react or think; making how they react change someone else, and so on, and so on. You might be the weakest link in the chain, but any break in the chain effects the whole chain. Maybe I am making more of this than I should; after all, God will always work things out for the good, right? Sure He will, but that applies to those that love Him and are called according to His purpose; meaning that you are "A man after God's own heart"... "Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and His Spirit, hath sent me. Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. O that thou hadst hearkened to My commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea;" (Isaiah 48:16-18)