The process of coming to grips with some of the great ideas in scripture and how best to understand them is far from easy or instant. More than a high IQ or a great memory, it takes desire, persistence and most of all ... time.
“Read, pay attention, pray, think and wait … and while you’re waiting, read some
more” is sound advice for the young Christian who wants to learn, but it’s a
difficult thing to sell to early 21st century Westerners who can ask Google a
trivia question on their phones and get what passes for an answer in nanoseconds.
If you want to know where the nearest pizza place is and how late it’s open, that’s
fine. But Google can’t tell you how to find oblique references to the Church in
the Minor Prophets when you’re doing your morning reading, or even if you
should expect to.
I mean, sometimes you’re not even at a stage where you’d know the right question to
ask it.