God Never Forgets You: Finding Faith When You Feel Abandoned
“Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.” ~ Isaiah 49:15
Have you ever felt like God forgot about you?
Those moments when you feel trapped in a deep cave on a deserted island in the middle of the ocean. The moments when the world is crushing you and you believe God has abandoned you or simply can’t reach you.
I have found it challenging to trust in God during those times.
What I know is that when I was going through those dark moments, I only thought of God to complain—asking why He wasn’t doing something about it. More often than not, I didn’t even think about God at all. I spent most of my time trying to figure out how to escape the pain.
My awareness of God’s presence in our darkest moments didn’t come until years later, after recognizing that in those times, certain things happened outside of my awareness that set the foundation for life lessons I later used to help someone else.
To me, having faith that God is always there—even when I can’t feel Him—has been a long and arduous journey.
Yet Isaiah tells us: “Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.”
God does not forget. He is always working, even in the silence.
Let us entrust ourselves to God by praying with Psalm 22:2-6:
“My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Why so far from my call for help, from my cries of anguish?
My God, I call by day, but you do not answer; by night, but I have no relief.
Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the glory of Israel.
In you our fathers trusted; they trusted and you rescued them.
To you they cried out and they escaped; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.”*
In peace,
~Juan
