Does God make everything happen under His will?

[anhphan]

Matthew 10,30"Even all the hairs of your head are counted."
Romans 8,29"For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers."
Ephesians 1,5"he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will"
For example: I go bathroom again and again after eating a lot, and say “Oh, It was God’s will!”. I was hit by a car and I say “Oh, it was God’s will!”.
Are there something happening coincidentally?

 

[ProdglArchitect]

In order to discuss this, you need to distinguish between God’s active will, and His passive will.

God’s active will covers the things He directly causes. Creation, miracles, stuff like that. It is also the aspect of His will that desires our salvation.

God’s passive will covers those things which He allows, but which may or may not coincide with His active will. The evils of the world would fall under this category. God allows them because of the greater good of free choice, but He does not actively will for an evil to happen.

As to your examples. When you need to go to the bathroom is generally going to fall under His passive will. It’s the result of the machinations of your body. Being hit by a car is also going to generally fall under passive will. It’s the result of the choices you and the car’s driver made.

Now, where it gets difficult is when you consider than God can use you getting hit by the car to enact His active will. Say you get hit, and you lose your job, and then you loose your house and find yourself homeless. Maybe, at that point of desperation, you finally turn from worldly things to God. While I think we would all agree that the preceding string of events are all worldly evils, turning from the world to God opens you to the possibility of the greatest possible good, eternal salvation. God’s passive will allowed worldly evils, while his active will shaped them into something positive.

The interplay between God’s active will and His passive will is something we won’t be able to see until our lives our laid bare before us at our judgment, and we see all that God has done for us and the world.

I hope this provides some answer to your question.

 

[anhphan]

Thank you.

 

[anhphan]

But I think when I go to bathroom, sometimes it means I like to do it.

 

[anhphan]

So are there something happening coincidentally?

 

[DeniseNY]

For example: I go bathroom again and again after eating a lot, and say “Oh, It was God’s will!”.

God gives us free will. If you choose to eat like a pig, then you choose the consequences.