How do you recognize whether it was God or the Devil, or the general Fall, that caused your misfortune? For example, if a person tripped and became injured, is this from the Devil, the Fall, or is God using this experience as instruction? When someone goes through a bad event/period, we hear all types of spiritual responses about the cause.
Seems like it would depend . Sometimes the devil could be attacking a weakness , other times God could be teaching a lesson or using some situation for some purpose other times could be the result of our own dumb choice , and something God is saving us from other times it’s part of Gods ll we simply won’t understand until later looking back from the mountaintop , that offers a new view of the valley from when we are in it
I’d say “ it’s all relative “ and part of the grand design of God purifying I to himself a peculiar people ready willing and even zealous to do good and not evil towards one another
a piece of raw precious metal needs to go through a process of refinement and purification before it’s finished and becomes a pure valuable piece of metal to be made into a treasure . But even when it is t purified and refined yet the value is already there to the craftsman he sees the shining pure gold even looking at the raw earth materials before it’s refined and knows what he’s going to fashion the metal into for his purpose and usefulness
But the process still must happen even through the craftsman onows how it’s going to end in a piece of shining useful valuable material
what I mean is God is ultimately in power but because mankind chose in and wickedness he also is allowing the results of thier choices to unfold on earth where they have dominion and freedom and rule . Man chose In the beginning the course they would traverse sometimes God himself is inter e ing in the course of actions like when Jesus came to die and save everyone
that is God intervening to save mankind from the end of thier course and choice in the beginning he’s done thit’s many times in the ot but did it once for all time in Christ by the gospel
The world however we live in Is filled with much that is not the Will of God but the result of man’s transgression and rebellion against him
“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And
the world passeth away, and the lust thereof:
but
he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”
1 John 2:16-17 KJV
Saved from death from perishing with the world and the wickedness that rules it and fills it through mankind
“And we know that we are of God, and
the whole world lieth in wickedness.”
1 John 5:19 KJV
My point of all this is because of this sometimes it’s satans work other times it’s our own fault and bad choice other times it’s God working some thing on his own to accomplish something great and good through people or a person
mankinds corruption and rebellion caused a lot of issues not designed by God so there’s a lot of factors at play on the world still vying for men’s souls
Some will say God allow the devil to do it. Hmm I can go rob a store, break into a house car, steal something from work and wow nothing happened it seems GOD allow it. We cannot forget God said through His word " In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, wo things ". Christ said " My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight". We read Satan telling Christ “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it will all be yours.” 
