Awakening to Alarms

Last night, the fire alarm went off in our apartment.

It’s a loud alarm that makes noises and talks. It’s not the ideal thing you want to hear at like 4 in the morning when you’re trying to sleep. So I did what most would do in that situation; I lay there in bed, annoyed, until the alarms finally stopped after a few minutes, and I went back to sleep.

Luckily, there wasn’t a dangerous fire actually happening in my building, or I would have been out of luck.

Sometimes God might send us signs or “alarms” in our lives, and we ignore them or aren’t fully aware of them, the same way I treated that fire alarm.

I’ll make sure I’m truly listening to God and all of His ways of talking to me. I’ll work on evacuating the building in the middle of the night when I hear the fire alarm too. One may be easier than the other though, and it’s not the latter.