There are seasons when God appears to be silent, even with His most faithful servants. These periods of divine quietness can draw us to trust Him and rely more fully on His previous promises as we await on Him to reveal Himself again to us. But a deeper problem arises from our end when we neglect listening to what He has already revealed; or when we neglect the Scriptures and rely on our own wisdom, when we distance ourselves from reliance on His word and become unaware that we are not hearing God as previously we might have done. This introduces a dreadful famine for the Word of the Lord. It leads to spiritual death. In such a famine for the word of God a desperate restlessness appears. We run around everywhere seeking for something new. We sense something wrong and missing in our lives. It is a desperate famine of needing to hear from God but being dull of hearing even if it were to come. We are not hearing even when He does speak. This condition is serious, as it indicates not God's temporary silence but our own spiritual deafness. When we find ourselves in such times, the solution is not to wander aimlessly seeking new voices, but to return to Him in humble obedience, ready to respond to when He connects with us again. Sometimes this means a humble address of the Scriptures seeking to grow closer to God as we wait on His mercy and renewed freshness.