have problems, then pray. You are exhausted, then you cry to God to relieve you. But the answer you get is silence so deafening silence that drowns all your thoughts least this: God is not listening, God abandoned me to.
Do you feel abandoned? Other believers have felt the same. Read the writings of Oswald Chambers, Charles Spurgeon, and D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and discover that they also knew well the agony that you experience.
After CS Lewis lost his wife, he cried out to God for comfort but did not feel any response. Confused, he asked, "What I can say to this? Why is this commanding in our times of prosperity and very absent a help in our times of difficulty? "
Take comfort in knowing that even in difficult times and times when you feel that God has removed His presence, are an essential part your spiritual experience. God has not forsaken you, but feel it is. Other believers have traveled the dark road where his career ended successfully completing their journey.
Jesus himself experienced this experience, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?.
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