How to Trust God When You Don’t Like the Changes in Your Life – Part 2

Podcast: Pastor Rick’s Daily Hope
Series: Strategies for Stressful Times

In this episode, Pastor Rick Warren continues a message about trusting God through unwanted change by laying out two final truths to remember and then pivoting to five practical action steps. The core argument is that change is not only unavoidable but is the primary mechanism God uses to build character, test faith, and draw people closer to him — and that the right response is not to resist or escape, but to invest more time alone with God and ask for his perspective.

Two More Truths About Change

Fourth truth: God can use even human error and sin. Warren emphasizes that this applies even when you are the innocent victim of someone else’s bad decision. He points to the story of Joseph, whose brothers sold him into slavery out of jealousy. For 40 years, everything went wrong — false accusation, slavery, imprisonment for a crime he didn’t commit. Yet Joseph was eventually raised to become the second most powerful leader in Egypt, and he saved two nations from famine. When Joseph finally confronted his brothers, his attitude was grace, not bitterness. Warren quotes Genesis 50:20: “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good.” The point is direct: people in your life may intend bad — coworkers who rese