When we enter our time of devotion and read the scriptures, is our intention to study the Holy Spirit, Jesus, and God, like a scientist would study a specimen in a lab? If we are pastors or teachers are we simply looking for eloquence and inspiration that can be used in our sermons and lessons? If so then we are treating our faith and our relationships with God like a tool, or as if they were something we might own, and not like the precious manna and love of our life that nourishes our soul and which we long, with all our heart, to be immersed in, and changed by.