The word of God is so sweet. I love to not only study it, but to also talk about it. Thanks @gavvet for the privilege of being part of this discuss.
I believe strongly that we have to add meditation to the reading of the word. I believe it's meditating on the word that makes it sink in.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” We cannot afford to “eat” God’s Word without “digesting” it.
'' Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. Whoever has ears, let them hear.”'' - Matthew 13 vs 3-9
In the parable of the four soils, Jesus tells of a sower who goes out to sow seed in his field, only to find that some seeds – the Word of God (vs 19) had fallen on “rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. This, Jesus says, is the person in whom the Word is sown but does not take root.
Meditating is what makes the word we have read to stick in and bear roots.
Amen, that is when the scriptures turn to personal revelation.