To say that God's controlling power is efficacious is simply to say that it always accomplishes its purpose. God never failed to accomplish what he sets out to do. Creatures may oppose him, to be sure, but they cannot prevail. For his own reasons, he has chosen to delay the fulfillment of his intentions for the end of history, and to bring about those intentions through a complicated historical sequence of events. In that sequence, his purposes appear sometimes to suffer defeat, sometimes to achieve victory. But...each apparent defeat actually makes his eventual victory all the more glorious. The cross of Jesus is, of course, the chief example of this principle.
For anyone desiring to know more about theology, especially from the pen of someone who labors to keep deep matters on the same readable level as Newsweek or Time magazine (this, Frame has explicitly communicated), I would highly recommend this book. I would also recommend Salvation is of the Lord
for a systematic primer.
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