This I know to be true, God has authority over Satan (Satan is a created being). How this works, I am unsure about. However, it seems to me that with the Enemy and wicked men, to be under God’s authority is not like immobile puppets, waiting to be moved by God’s commands (in which case, every evil act would have been directly commanded and empowered by God Himself). Rather, evil is a river which flows whichever way and place it wants until something gets in its way. For Satan and men are given free will to do as they please, and yet at any point, God could choose to intervene and so “block” their path because He has authority over all things. So, evil is not caused or commanded by God. It is in fact, allowed. Why God does not always choose to stop the flow of evil, or to intervene, I do not know. I can only trust in what I have seen of His character: He is far wiser than I and more good than anything. He is perfectly fit to rule this world He has made and so I must, in good faith, trust Him to do what is right and best, even when I do not, and cannot, fully understand what that is.

[Reflections on Job Chapter 1 and 2]