Have you ever felt so distant from God that you were convinced he could no longer hear your prayers?

Feeling far from God is one of the most painful experiences in the Christian life, and it often intensifies during seasons of suffering. For those wrestling with broken relationships, unwanted desires, or sexual sin, this sense of distance can feel especially heavy.

Today’s episode from Catherine Krasinski encourages believers who feel like they’ve been abandoned by God. She examines the common causes of this experience, why God allows us to feel his seeming absence, and why Jesus can sympathize with our experiences of feeling forsaken.

“He is actually not far from each one of us, for ‘in him we live and move and have our being.’” - Acts 17:27-28

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