Can You Trust God When Life Doesn’t Go Your Way? | Locked In

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What does it mean to keep trusting God when life doesn’t go your way?

John Davenport Jr., author of The River Principle: Trading Self-Reliance for the Only Source That Never Runs Dry, joins Locked In with Algenon Cash for a conversation about self-reliance, money, surrender, faith and our desire to control what happens next.

At the center of The River Principle is a distinction between the “lake” and the “river.” We spend our lives building lakes — accumulating money, developing careers, forming relationships, making plans and creating resources designed to make us feel secure. John’s argument isn’t that we shouldn’t build, save or prepare. His challenge is what happens when we begin treating those resources as the ultimate source of our security.

But faith also raises difficult questions.

How do you know when God is actually speaking to you? How do you distinguish God’s voice from fear, ego, intuition or your own desires? Where is the line between responsible planning and self-reliance? And can you keep trusting God when surrender doesn’t produce the outcome you wanted?

John and Algenon explore faith during uncertain times, the tension between surrender and personal responsibility, and whether our desire for control can prevent us from experiencing genuine peace.

Because perhaps surrender isn’t believing everything will work out exactly as we planned.

Perhaps it’s discovering that we can still be okay when it doesn’t.