1. The Sovereign Decree: God Works All Things According to His Counsel (Ephesians 1:11; Isaiah 45:7)From eternity past, before the foundation of the world, God has ordained whatsoever comes to pass, encompassing the existence, agents, and execution of evil acts. Nothing arises by chance or independent rebellion; all unfolds within the deliberate bounds of His plan, ultimately serving His glory and the good of His elect (Romans 8:28). The Hebrew ra' in Isaiah 45:7 denotes calamity or disaster under divine formation, not moral wickedness originating from God—clarifying His absolute governance over the full spectrum of reality without impugning His holiness.2. No Dualism, No Cosmic Contest: Rejecting Rival Wills in Divine ProvidenceThere is no struggle of competing volitions; evil possesses no autonomous power to oppose God's will. Passages like Amos 3:6 interrogate whether disaster befalls a city apart from the Lord's doing, underscoring His unchallenged authority over history. Even the crucifixion—the pinnacle of wickedness—was "delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God" (Acts 2:23), yet God remains blameless, for the sinfulness proceeds solely from creatures.3. God's Eternal Gaze: Perceiving Evil Sub Specie Aeternitatis (Revelation 20:11–15)God beholds every evil act with perfect, impartial, holy, and unchangeable justice. Viewed from the vantage of eternity—as if all creation already stands before the judgment throne—time's constraints dissolve, and reality conforms wholly to His unchanging purpose. There is no divine vacillation, no diminution of power or dignity; evil is rendered powerless before His sovereign curse and decree.4. The Greater Good: Ordaining Evil for Glory and RedemptionEvil exists not as an end in itself but as ordained for judgment, greater good, and the magnification of divine attributes—most vividly in Christ's atoning defeat of sin. God's judgment is absolute and unpragmatic: He blesses the righteous and curses the wicked with inexorable equity (Deuteronomy 27–28; Romans 9:22–23). This aligns with confessional precision: God ordains evil without causing it, bounding and governing it to holy ends.5. The Source of Tension: Fallen Corruption and Pragmatic Blindness (Romans 3:10–18; Jeremiah 17:9; Galatians 5:17)Believers' inner conflict between good and evil stems not from any ontological dualism in God but from our total depravity post-Fall. Tainted in mind, will, and affections, we evaluate horizontally—as if good and evil contend equally or as if God's rule hinges on human perception. This cursed pragmatism blinds us to grace's annihilating supremacy: where grace reigns, evil is consumed like a spark in an atomic explosion (Romans 5:20).6. Grace as Eschatological Triumph: The Annihilation of Evil's Power (Revelation 21:4)Grace is no mere counterbalance but the divine force that tears down opposition, manifesting the eternal kingdom without adversaries as already present. Evil's apparent vitality is illusory; ordained solely for redemption and judgment, it has no enduring autonomy. This truth liberates from anxiety: evil rests securely within God's pre-creation plan, nothing opposing His will beyond appointed bounds.7. Comfort in Unshakable Sovereignty: Freedom from Anxiety and Assurance of GloryTrusting this doctrine yields profound rest—God's power never wanes, His dignity intact, His purposes for salvation, justice, and glory perfectly intact amid evil. His glory shines most resplendently against the decreed backdrop of opposition overcome.This essay framework draws substantively from Reformed voices such as John Calvin (Institutes, Book I, chs. 16–18), Jonathan Edwards (Freedom of the Will), John Piper (various works on God's passion for glory), R.C. Sproul (Willing to Believe), and contemporary treatments like Scott Christensen's What about Evil?: A Defense of God's Sovereign Glory, D.A. Carson's How Long, O Lord? Reflections on Suffering and Evil, and John Frame's The Doctrine of God. These resources provide rigorous biblical, exegetical, and confessional support for the perspective articulated.