We have to get beyond the belief that we must have a perfect quiet time and the right devotional books and the dependence on others’ interpretations to open God’s Word for ourselves. We need the full gospel—the gospel that began in Genesis and runs to Revelation like a “scarlet thread,” a continual story written in blood—in order to find a deeper spiritual life in this shallow world. Finding this life is not easy. It takes diligence. But diligence is what a student of any kind must cultivate in order to gain knowledge. And that’s what we, as believers, need to do.
