a helpful insight from the pages of "A Call to Spiritual Reformation":
The Bible insists God is sovereign, so sovereign that nothing that takes place in the universe can escape the outermost boundary of his control; yet the Bible insists God is good, unreservedly good, the very standard of goodness. We are driven to conclude that God does not stand behind good and evil in exactly the same way. In other words, he stands behind good and evil asymmetrically. He stands behind good in such a way that the good can ultimately credited to him; he stands behind evil in such a way that what is evil is inevitably credited to secondary agents and all their malignant effects. They cannot escape his sway in exactly the same way that Satan has no power over Job without God's sanction; yet God remains mysteriously distant from the evil itself.
DA Carson
In other words, He produces the good and he overrules the bad. He stands behind the two, but he stands behind the two asymmetrically
The most famous example of this, of course, is the crucifixion. There is a wicked event taking place, God being killed by his creatures, and yet in the very midst of that event, the creatures are being drawn by invitation into the family of God.
It's a wonderful truth that God is sovereign and personal..
