their faithlessness (e.g., Ps 44). When challenged, Yahweh responds by saying. “Sorry (except that he doesn’t say ‘Sorry’), but the world doesn’t revolve around you. You just have to live with what’s happened in light of the evidence that on the whole I’m not doing too bad a job of running the world” (Job 38–41). At the same time, for people who love God, he “makes all things work together for good” (Rom 8:28).84 The test of God’s sovereignty lies not in things that happen but in what he does with