April 3, 2026

Are You Listening?

Yesterday we began a series of devotionals focusing on how you can regain your spiritual edge. As we think about how to do that, it is important to consider those things that would indicate we have become spiritually dull.

I believe the number one characteristic you find in someone who has lost their cutting edge spiritually is that the voice of the Holy Spirit is no longer recognized. Those impressions that the Spirit makes upon your heart, through which He guides you, are no longer clear.

In Matthew 13:14–15, Jesus talks about this in a pretty plain way,

“And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; for the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.’”

This concern is echoed in Hebrews 5:11, where the writer, in talking about the priesthood of Christ, says,

Of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

Have you lost the edge? Have you lost that sensitivity to the voice of God? Hearing with the physical ears, but not understanding in the heart; seeing with the physical eyes, but not perceiving what God is doing?

Jesus said that happens when the heart becomes dull. When someone loses that edge spiritually, it results in an insensitivity to the voice of God.

If this describes you today, ask God to open your eyes to see and your ears to hear. Begin now to regain your spiritual edge.

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