Are you willing to work hard?

"The reason why many get so little out of their Bible reading is simply because they are not willing to think. 

Intellectual laziness lies at the bottom of a large percent of fruitless Bible reading.  People are constantly crying for new methods of Bible study, but what many of them wish is simply some method of Bible study by which they can get all the good out of the Bible without work.  If someone could tell lazy Christians some method of Bible study whereby they could put the sleepiest ten minutes of the day, just before they go to bed, into Bible study, and get the profit out of it that God intends His children shall get out of the study of His Word, that would be just what they desire.  But it can't be done. 

We must be willing to work, and work hard, if we wish to dig out the treasures of infinite wisdom and knowledge and blessing which God has stored up in His Word."

-John Piper, Desiring God blog