Reading the Bible

From: "Bonhoeffer" by Eric Metaxas

Quoted from a letter by Bonoeffer to his brother-in-law.
"First of all I will confess quite simply-I believe that the Bible alone is the answer to all our questions, and that we need only to ask repeatedly and a little humbly, in order to receive this answer. One cannot simply 'read' the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. ... Only if we will venture to enter into the words of the Bible, as though this God were speaking to us who loves us and does not will to leave us alonge with our questions, only so shall we learn to rejoice in the Bible. ... and every day I consider a text which I have cosen for the whole week, and try to sink deeply into it, so as really to hear what it is saying. I know that without this I could not live properly any longer."