God always was, is now and forever shall be in sovereign control over events in His creation. God created it God controls it. But that doesn’t mean that we’re like robots and God causes everything single thing to happen: God doesn’t cause me to sin or to wave my hand in the air. He ordains or allows me to do it, but He doesn’t make me to do. I choose to do that. We are created in God’s image and like God we have the ability to choose: we have free will. So we shouldn’t think of God as a puppet master who pulls all the strings. Rather, He is more like a chess Grandmaster who is able to respond to every move of His opponent, so that the result always achieves what God desires, even when His own will is resisted.