His faith wasn’t in God. It was in people. Then he was appalled to find that God has Free Will.
He was preaching the Prosperity type Gospel. If you do “good” things, God is obligated to do good things for you. In short, you can manipulate God with your actions. God is under your control.
It doesn’t work that way. God is not your employee and you can’t fire Him for non-performance.
Thank goodness!
I couldn't count the times God has allowed something into my life that I would not have chosen - even would have run from - which turned out to be a beautiful gift in ugly wrapping.