Devil, God’s Purposes fulfilled by the – Charles Spurgeon

PERHAPS, of all the powers which effect the divine purposes in the world, none does more than the devil himself. He is but a scullion in the Eternal’s kitchen; he unwillingly performs much work to which the Lord would not put his children, work which is just as needful as that which seraphim perform. Believe not that evil is a rival power of equal potency with the good God. No, sin and death are, like the Gibeonites, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the divine purposes; and, though they know it not, when the Lord’s enemies rave and rage most they fulfill the eternal purposes to the praise of the glory of his wisdom and grace.