The parable illustrated by Jesus himself in Matthew 13:24-43 is simplified in this statement, "you cannot choose what, who, and where you learned a lesson and how hard is to grow in purpose while being surrounded by something that seems to have no purpose at all." Fortunately, God goes about life making it happen without our input.  I'm sure at times we think that God is responding or reacting to our disagreement, disapproval, or unsatisfaction about how He goes about being God, but I am here to tell you through trial and failure He does not! He is Thee