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Lately I read the bible just for some inspiration and because how good it makes me feel. I don't try to read any deeper than the surface (don't try to make humanly sense out of it). Is this okay? Will my spirit continue to be satisfied if I read the word to spend time with God but I do not literally study it and try to make more sense from it?
 
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God can give the sense

Neh 8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

For example, all scripture is given for reproof

Prov 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Shown in Jesus here...

Luke 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

Which blessed me, because it shows God causing the sense, the one making known His words to the reader and opening their understanding that they might understand what they are reading.

I dont think you can get too far without Gods Spirit, or be satisfied in just yourself (by yourself) make any sense?
 
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Matthew 5:6
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.


John 6:35
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

Just as the earthly bread is needful to preserve the body, so also is that heavenly bread needful to preserve one's soul.

But it is God who gives understanding in His Word by way His Spirit.

If any man lacks understanding ask of God who gives to all men freely, but let that man ask in faith.

What father would give to his son a stone if he asked for bread? Even so your heavenly Father is happy to give of His Spiriit to those who ask Him.
 
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