God as silent

I recently heard something on the radio that said something like this:

We need to, as Christians, begin to realize and teach that sometime in our lives we will NOT hear from God and we will NOT feel like He is present and we will NOT know whether we are making Godly, righteous, or Biblical decisions. Let's make sure we tell new Christians to understand that every walk of Faith in the Bible, at some point or another, reaches out to God, speaks to God, and hopes for God, but gets silence or seemingly no answer.

Even Jesus struggled with the Father's seeming silence and abandonment: "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?"

What makes us think we will not? Or should not?

What makes us think we have to hide it when we do feel like God is silent, uncaring, or indifferent?

Just because we might get silence from God, does not mean we stop believing. It just makes us have to choose to believe in the midst of doubt - THAT IS WHERE FAITH BEGINS.

For it is precisely when we experience these things of "silence" that we cannot live in His Kingdom - and by trusting in Faith in those moments we ironically begin to live in His Kingdom by His power alone.