IT is easy to fall into the habit of reading the Bible as if it were a book like other books, and to forget practically that, save as God the Holy Spirit teaches us while reading it, we cannot spiritually understand what we read. Every time we open the Bible we should read it in order to be taught of God. By reading it with the intention of mastering its truths in our own strength, we forget our true place in relation to the word of God, and by such pride forfeit the favor of divine teaching, for God teaches the teachable, not the self-sufficient.