A response from kinwove

No. The opposite, actually.

If you ignore your feelings, you're ignoring real data about where you are. "I feel abandoned" or "I feel like God isn't here" is true information. It's worth sitting with, not dismissing as weakness or lack of faith.

What faith doesn't mean is *believing your feelings are the full story*. They're part of it, not all of it.

Think of it like this: you can feel abandoned and still know someone loves you. A parent gone for work, a friend caught up in their own crisis, a doctor who seems distant but is actually trying to help — the feeling of abandonment is real. It doesn't make the love false. It just means the love is operating in a different register than your emotions right now.

David in the Psalms does something interesting. He doesn't pray past his feelings or above them. He names them completely — rage, despair, the sense that God has forgotten him. And then in the same prayer he sometimes pivots: "Yet I will praise you" (Psalm 42:5), not because the feeling changed, but because he decided to trust what he knows alongside what he feels.

The decision to trust doesn't erase the loneliness. But it means you're not making your next move based only on the loneliness.

Where it gets real: this works only if you're not performing it, not white-knuckling through. If you're genuinely asking God to help you trust while you're feeling this, that's prayer. That's honest. That's already faith working.

What made you wonder about this connection between feeling and trusting?