“It is very important that we reflect much on God’s word. Reading and hearing are sowing the seed; meditation is harrowing it in. The psalmist says: ‘I will meditate in thy precepts;’ ‘O how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day;’ ‘Mine eyes prevent the night-watches, that I might meditate in thy word.’ Such a student of the Bible will not fail to make progress. ‘Meditation, to the book of revelation, is like the microscope to the book of nature; it is sure to discover new beauties.’ It is much to be regretted that some readers of Scripture so seldom give themselves time to reflect on what they have read. They derive not half the profit from Scripture that they would by a different course.” — William S. Plumer, How to Read the Bible