Well, I don’t know what your experience is.
My experience when reading Scripture is also excitement, and having to swallow a lot of pride sometimes.
I think one issue that a lot of people have is that they want to read their own biases into Scripture, and really REALLY don’t want to admit that they might be wrong.
I’ve always been a believer, just not a Bible understander. I had exposure to it, but the King James Bible was something I just didn’t get. Much later in life, I read the One Day at a Time Bible for 1999, but can’t say that I fully got it even then.
Fortunately, the Holy Spirit opened my understanding a bit with several books, especially The Harbinger. That book changed my perspective a bit or something, because from then on, the Bible became real, but also in a practical way.
Everything I’ve read since then has enhanced that :the Bible is Real” experience, with the TLIG messages most of all.
My hobby and major time consumer became trying to figure out where we are in the story we were born into, as that’s what I think the Bible is.
It tells out story, beginning to end, while explaining and predicting pretty much everything.
Revelation and related prophecy stuff hooks me like a large mouth bass swallowing the lure.
The parts about “how and why things go wrong” are also irresistible.
Pretty much everything about the Bible I’ve come to see as being remarkable in some way.
confirmation bias