2201) I have heard and read multiple times and places that a prudent person knows there is very little that is good that is actually free. There is almost always a catch.  

I thought of this when I read Psalm 118:5. This verse reads (ESV) Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.  

Surely there are boundaries that tell us that God will not do something for us that is ultimately bad.  

Yes, I can call on God in any distress I have, yet when I read God answers me and sets me free, I pause. Why?  

Because I am mature enough in my faith to know that God’s idea of answering and setting me free may not be my idea of it, and at times, it often isn’t. That’s the so-called catch.  

God will always provide what we need in our distress; it just doesn’t always come in the package we thought it would.  

When these times come and God provides, faith steps in and says, this isn’t what I thought I needed and doesn’t feel like you’ve set me free but I can be free, letting you shoulder the responsibility and following your lead is mine.