As a believer, we may be in the dark but the dark is not in us . For distress will surely come - sickness or death, a stress in daily life, a crushing disappointment. There are times of utter darkness. A difficult circumstance may hold us in its grip day after day. In such a time hope flickers and goes out.
Fear takes the place of faith.
Resentment may well up while Satan seems to gloat. This time, He's let you down for sure. Several wrong assumptions are to be avoided. First, it is a fallacy to assume that trouble, for ourselves or others, is always Heaven's judgment. Not Joseph, or David, or the weeping prophet Jeremiah.