Why doesn't God make everyone wealthy if He is sovereign?
God is sovereign over His creation, pictured as the potter with control of the clay. Wealth, gifts, talents, and physical makeup are apportioned according to His purpose and will, not given equally to all. It is not necessarily His will for everyone to have wealth, so people should accept His sovereign choices without complaining.
Les explains that the issue is not that God is less than sovereign, but that He is a sovereign God who deals in mercy, and believers appropriate that mercy by His unmerited favor, His grace. Drawing from Paul's question, “Why did you make me the way I am?” Les says the answer is simply that God is sovereign and made each person the way he is for His purpose. People should not complain about how they look or how they are physically put together; they are to accept what they are as they are. The same principle applies to gifts and talents: it is not for us to complain that God did not give us a certain gift, such as singing like someone else. It applies equally to wealth. A person may ask why God could not make him wealthy, but wealth is not necessarily in God's will for that person. The underlying truth is that He is the potter and has control of the clay.