There are many stories mentioned throughout the bible where people went through hardships, persecution, famine, danger and God appears silent, yet they still endured. Jesus himself, when dying on the cross experienced, the silence of God. I believe that although God may seem silent he never really is and to understand his silence and our doubt we need to better understand faith.

There are two kinds of faith; faith where you merely believe in the impossible and fidelity, a deeper faith, where you actually put your faith to action. Each and every one of us develops the first kind of faith. However, in times where it seems God is not there and life seems to be at its worst we need fidelity. There is more to faith than just being convinced God exists in the same way that we are convinced a chair exists. People cannot be completely...