Iced coffee or hot coffee, not many people drink room temp coffee. drinking slightly hot plain water is kind of repulsive.
The turning point for me in studying the Bible came when I just wanted to know the truth. Of course I was crying my eyes out to God at the time. It is not our reasoning that deciphers the Word, it is God who opens our eyes to His truth. All you have to do is ask, and be willing to have your world turned upside down by the truth.
Interesting.
The turning point for me came when I realized that God chooses (for whatever reason) to speak in metaphors, similes, parables, idioms, and figurative language that are loaded with multiple layers of meaning. The Bible is often not an "either/or" proposition, but a "both and something else as well" proposition.