Of course, a lot of people, when responding to this question, try to dance around the answer, by postulating that God’s will is unknowable and inscrutable, but this simply isn’t true. God’s will for anyone has a very specific format which is, as Holy Scripture has taught us, to love God with all of our being, which we demonstrate through our faithful good acts, and by treating people in the same way that we desire to be treated, at all times. Further, the way that we prove our love for God, is by taking on the virtues of God, in our interactions with others, such as by fortitude, justice, temperance, and charity. Additionally, we treat others the same way that we desire to be treated, demonstrated by the consistency of our good actions, through forgiveness, and by our fairness in all that we say and do. Those that have and live that character set, are being obedient to God’s will and those that do not, are not.
To take things a bit further, most people that are trying to be obedient to God’s will, are typically going to need to dial back their ego and view of their self, and instead need to sincerely and humbly petition God through prayer, meditation, or contemplation, to help in the guidance of whether a particular set of actions is advisable or not, and then to listen to that still, small voice within. Disappointingly, a significant amount of people has shown a strong tendency to do what they are going to do, without bothering to reflect thoroughly of what they are actually doing and thereby the consequences of it, because they have already made up their minds to do what they are going to do and thereby to let the chips fall where they may.
While it is true that we are gifted with free will, it must also be recognized that not every free will decision so made is going to be the best decision, and that for most people, there are those times when clearly a decision made and enacted, is known for a certainty to have been the incorrect one. So then, those acts done that we consciously know are wrong, are not in accordance with God’s will, which makes us, disobedient. That said, we understand that our God is a forgiving God, but so too, we know that our God tests us again and again, for this earth is a proving ground, of whether or not each one of us, is faithful to God’s will.
This signifies that whether we are obedient to God’s will makes a difference, not only in this world but in the dimension beyond, and while there are plenty of people that believe that their baptism or faith or something similar seems to provide them with a free ticket (paid through our Messiah) into Heaven, this will undoubtedly prove to those so departing from this world to not be the case, as there are no shortcuts to Heaven. In truth, those that are obedient to God’s will, time in and time out, are not judged the same as those that are not, of which, the clarity of this, will become clear when the only test that matters, for each of us, is fairly graded.