Aristotle says something interesting about divine free will in Metaphysics (lest you set to much stock by my store of learning, I’m including the full C.S. Lewis text I got it from):

In Metaphysics we learn that the organization of the universe resembles that of a household, in which ‘no one has so little chance to act at random as the free members. For them everything or almost everything proceeds according to a fixed plan.’

One of the themes of this blog, or at least one of the themes in my head, is that in some ways the more responsibility you have, the less freedom you have, and that’s a good thing. I don’t think God has free will the way we think of it. He doesn’t spend time weighing options and agonizing over a choice. But He doesn’t feel unfree. Everything He does and knows that He will do are the result of who He is and what He wants.

Suppose a boy at Disneyland suddenly complains that he wants to go to Disney World instead. He can’t, obviously, not right away and probably not at all. His parents can’t afford two vacations. Is he then unfree? Has he been denied choice? Not if he chose Disneyland in the first place. Being there and not at Disney World is part and parcel of his free will.

The one who chooses and the one who experiences the consequence of the choice are the same being.

Free will is a journey. Heaven is the destination.