By now everyone's heard the one about the guy who tells his buddy about the arrangement he and his wife arrived at after years of querulous marriage. We often tend to think about our relationship with G-d along similar lines. When it comes to the minutiae of daily life, we basically decide things for ourselves. The big issues, on the other hand, that's G-d's department.
Chassidic teaching claims that the very opposite is the case.
When it comes to the do's and don'ts of daily living, the Torah presents us a very detailed list of instructions. Of course, we have free choice. It means simply that we can choose to obey the divine will, thereby bringing our lives in harmony with the way that the creator of life designed it to be lived, or we can choose to disobey it. That is how I shall regard you and relate to you. The Unpaid Guardian .