Yes, and I don’t think that tension is as unbiblical as it can feel. Scripture gives us language for both trust and anguish living side by side. Feeling forsaken doesn’t always mean believing God has abandoned us; sometimes it reflects the gap between promise and experience.
Even Jesus voiced that cry, which tells me that faith isn’t invalidated by emotional desolation. The absence of felt presence isn’t the absence of God, but it can still be deeply painful.
For me, faith in those moments looks less like certainty and more like refusal to walk away, staying oriented toward God even when He feels distant.
That’s true @Who-me. The just shall live by faith. Jesus said we would have trouble in this world and having trouble doesn’t mean we’ve lost our faith. Look at David. He had trouble and what did he do with it? He complained to God; the God he believed in. Look at the disciples who died for their faith. That’s big trouble! And even though they died, they died with their faith intact.
The thing God promises is that He’s with us in that trouble. Even if we don’t realize it or see it in any way, we know it is true. I think what the Lord wants from us is to talk to Him about it. From the heart, telling it like it is. And its true that our troubles do teach us something we might never have learned otherwise. We can ask ourselves that question. We can ask God that question. What are you showing me? What are you teaching me?
I’ll give you the same verse that the Lord gave Joshua. “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
The one who doesn’t have faith should ask God and he will give it to them.
James 1:5-6 (NKJV): "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting