This morning, at approximately 5:45 a.m., my wife rolled over and said, “I can’t hear that alarm anymore. I keep pressing it. I need to change it.”
Now, let me clarify—she didn’t mean the alarm was broken. She meant she had heard it so many times, for so long, that her brain had officially decided it was no longer worth paying attention to. It had become background noise. It had completely lost its ability to wake her up.
And as I sat there in the early-morning haze, I couldn’t help but think: how many of us have done the exact same thing with God?
Not because He stopped speaking.
Not because the signal went quiet.
But because we’ve heard Him so many times—without responding, without moving, without trusting—that His voice has become… noise.
The Nudge You Keep Ignoring
It’s the gentle prod we keep snoozing.
The prompting we recognize but shrug off, thinking, I’ll deal with that later.
The still small voice that’s grown so familiar, we sleep straight through it.
And here’s the thing: God hasn’t stopped talking. But maybe, just maybe, we’ve stopped listening.
What Happens When You Stop Noticing
I’ve been sitting with this thought for a while now. Since last summer, I’ve watched God quietly, steadily, and deliberately doing something in my life. He’s been rebuilding things I thought were beyond repair. Repositioning pieces I’d given up on. Moving in ways I didn’t even realize were possible.
And, to be perfectly honest, there were mornings I almost missed it.
Not because it wasn’t happening.
But because I had grown so accustomed to waiting for God to move that I didn’t recognize it when He actually did.
Can You Still Hear It?
The thing He’s been saying to you?
The direction He’s been nudging you toward?
The rebuilding He’s already started—whether or not you’ve fully noticed it yet?
Sometimes, the most important thing we can do is turn the volume back up. Get quiet enough to hear what’s been playing in the background all along.
He hasn’t gone silent.
You might just need a new alarm.
Today’s Thought:
God’s voice doesn’t lose power. But we can lose sensitivity to it. Take a moment today to pause, listen, and trust that He’s still speaking.