I’m currently reading The Will of God by Leslie Weatherhead. (Sidebar: Weatherhead has to be one of the best last names ever.) Theologians often talk about God as omnipotent, meaning God is all-powerful. Weatherhead succinctly explains what that means and what it does not mean in one sentence.
“God cannot be finally defeated, and that is what I mean by his omnipotence—not that everything that happens is his will, but that nothing can happen which finally defeats his will.” [1]
God will have God’s way in the end. Evil, sin, and death will be defeated in the end, and God’s will shall be done on earth as in heaven. But in the meantime, we dare not attribute everything that happens to God. There is a great deal going on which God does not condone.
[1] Leslie D. Weatherhead, The Will of God (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1944), 11. Kindle Edition.