I have often been told that people frequently give way too much credit to Satan for things that happen. Those people in turn, give credit to God for pretty much everything - including bad things. My problem with this thinking is that the Bible itself gives Satan credit for a great many things! It may sound holy and righteous to attribute everything to God, but is it Biblical? We see in James 1:13 "Let not man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man." This specifically prohibits us from attributing the works of Satan to God. Just as not good thing can come from the devil, no evil thing can come from God. God may use it to accomplish something, but it is not from Him. James 1:17 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." it is obvious from I Chronicles 21:1, 2 Timothy 2:26, and James 4:7 that the devil is very much alive and well!

I Chronicles 21:1
"And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel."

2 Timothy 2:26
"And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will."

James 4:7
" Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

Satan is very busily at work! We see that he works his evil deeds in the lives of Christians as well as the unsaved. If he was not actively working to tear us down, we would not have been told to resist him.
Websters 1828 -Resist - 1. To stand against; to withstand; hence, to act in opposition, or to oppose. 2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate.
Notice that "resist" does not mean just standing unmoving and unshaken while the devil beats on you. "Resist" is proactive - we must be passionately taking an aggresive offense against him. We often see "resist" as a defensive action but it is also an offensive action. Our aim is to defeat the devil, not just hold him off. When we say "Oh well, God allowed it so He must have a reason" we are already giving in to defeat at Satan's hands. God receives great glory from victory. He allows temptation so that we may resit and defear Satan through His power. Our Father loves to see Satan lying in the dust of defeat while His children rise victorious.
Sadly, it's not often that we allow our Lord to view that scene. All to often we fall defeated because we have trusted our own power to maintain rather than trusting in our Father's power to overcome. His desire is that we would give the battle back to Him and allow Him to fight it for us. Then the victory is sure!
Unless we recognize the works of Satan as being from him, we will never be able to effectively resist and overcome him. God has warned us about Satan's deceptive wiles. It's time we started acknowledging his power and fighting him with the greatest weapons of all - our Father, and His Word!