It's not just me! (See below.) Personally, read-the-Bible-in-a-year plans and warm-feeling devotionals tend to mildly repel me rather than bring spiritual growth. Instead, it has always seemed to me that, for me, studying and engaging an interesting or controversial theological topic brings excitement, refreshment, and growth in the knowledge and experience of God.
From Justin Taylor's blog:
C. S. Lewis:
For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.B. B. Warfield:
Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?”
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