Bad Luck or Divine Plan?

But the unpredictable exists because God created it. It suits his purposes that randomness exists; he wants it that way and insists that its reality be laid at his feet. He tells Job that he’s the one who sends the rain on desolate land where no people dwell (Job 38:25-27). What a waste of water, we might think. But God chose to do it, whether we think it wise or not, and it was God doing it even though we would speak of it as unpredictable and random.

Jim McGuiggan, Celebrating the Wrath of God: Reflections on the Agony and Ecstasy of His Relentless Love