It’s not something I concern myself about. Satan is immobile without Father’s acquiescence, suiting his purposes. God is good. All the time. Difficult things may be Satan’s futile attempts thwart God’s good purposes, but that’s all they are. There’s a song lyric that says something like ‘God can recycle pain into gain.’† And he does. À la Job, à la Nate Saint, à la Dale’s nephrectomy – it’s been good for me, and I’m hopeful that it may help others, too, to see and to trust God and Jesus.
(My nephrectomy was helpful in my accepting evolutionary science, and maybe understanding a minuscule bit of it, too. Ü Recognizing God’s sovereignty over the mutations – that I did implicitly, because I am practiced at trusting him – helped me to recognize his sovereignty over eons of mutations, along with discussions here at PS about the failed science of ID and the recognition that God does not want his existence to be ‘provable’. John @Mercer’s comment†† pretty well clinched it. Hence my Discourse post-nominal whatevertheycallit of ‘…Providentialist’, or maybe it should be Evolutionary Providentialist. (Btw, that was not really a request for a change, @swamidass. Ü)
†Another song I like a lot with respect to difficult providence is Laura Story’s Blessings.
††Mercer: