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In the final analysis it seems to come down to which perspective gives us more strength and helps us to sleep through the night. I think the weight of evidence falls to predestination as opposed to randomness or God's acquiescence.

Good or bad, comedy or tragedy, if Romans 8:28 is true then life at any given moment is as it's supposed to be and tomorrow will always bring us one step closer to Him. As God wills.

In the final analysis it seems to come down to which perspective gives us more strength and helps us to sleep through the night

Then it is something we create, like soothing music, or a good drink; a mood-setter.

I think the weight of evidence falls to predestination as opposed to randomness or God's acquiescence.

No doubt, everything that happens does so for sufficient reason, because of pre-existing conditions, or else it would not have happened. Every event has been cause and, ultimately, determined, by events leading up to it, except one, the initial cause of all existence. The first cause of all existence predetermined every event that occurred and will occur since then.

We simply don't know what caused it or why everything exists. We can only deduce that everything exists because of, ultimately, the "first cause," the event that created physical world.

The problem is that some make an a priori assumption that there is a purpose and intelligence in everything that has happened and will happen since the creation.

What intelligence and purpose do you find in endless space filled with rocks endlessly going around in circles or smashing each other into smithereens?