Learning that God is not stumped, trumped, or surprised by evil, that He is actively using it and fully aware of it, and that it does not exist outside His space or confines has continued to give me great comfort and reassurance ever since my realization of it. I’ve finally connected with the hope and reassurance that the universe is not spinning out of control in the way I had once thought, and that God truly is more powerful and supreme than those in my Christian roots have given Him credit for, out of their misguided, exaggerated reverence for and fear of evil.
