Let us introduce
the concept of the different wills of
God. There are "will"s of God. There is
a Moral Will and there is a Sovereign
will.
The Moral Will:
This is
the will that is indicated when the
Bible asks us to not sin. God would like
us not to sin in His Moral will. But
obviously we sin. If God didn't want
anyone to sin then no one would sin
(otherwise God is not Omnipotent). But
mankind sins. So we have a choice.
Either God is incapable of preventing us
from sinning (silly idea) or God allows
us to sin. So we came up with the second
type of God's will.
The Sovereign
Will:
This is the will that actually happens.
E.g. It was God's Sovereign Will that
Jesus was to die on the cross.
Do you see the
difference: It was God's Moral Will that
everyone obey God and not kill Jesus.
But it was God's Sovereign Will that
Jesus be killed.
Anything that
happens is God’s Sovereign Will. We
constantly pray that God would choose to
make his Moral Will and His Sovereign
Will coincide.
Another example.
It is God's Moral Will that you obey Him
and be blessed. But it was God's
Sovereign will that you rebelled, fought
against the wisdom of God, did stupid
things, suffered from it, then learned
from it and came back into obedience.
Note that this is
just mankind's attempt to comprehend a
portion of the nature of an infinite
God. We can't ever fully comprehend Him,
but this distinction allows us to
differentiate between the things that
happen that are allowed by God and the
things that God indicates he would have
us do (e.g. Obey him).