You can learn more from a book if you stop and ask it questions than if you just read it passively. That includes the Bible too.

 

One of the great problems in Bible reading is that we move our eyes over the words and come to the end of a column and don't know what we've read; we don't feel our minds or spirits expanded because we saw nothing fresh.

 

It was purely mechanical. There was no discovery, no life, no breakthroughs to new insight.

One of the best ways to change that is to train yourself to ask questions of the text. Often the posing of the question itself will already carry its answer with it and will open your mind to new things.

 

 

- John Piper