There are those times when God just doesn’t seem to be there. It’s really as if the darkness does hide him.

These words from Job are powerful:

⁸ Look, I go east; he’s not there,
west, and don’t discover him;
⁹     north in his activity, and I don’t grasp him;
he turns south, and I don’t see.
¹⁰ Surely he knows my way;
when he tests me,
I will emerge as gold. (Job 23:8-10, CEB)

God is faithful. He knows your way. He may test you, but fire only refines gold.