The Doctor: Difficult Passages

We must not give up because the subject matter is difficult.  You will then find happening to you what is the almost universal experience of all raw students.  When students first begin to listen to lectures on a subject they often feel on the first few occasions not only that they know nothing at all of what is being said, but that they will probably never be able to understand.  There is only one thing to do at that point, and that is to go on listening.  If you go on listening then you will begin to find that more than you had ever realized is sinking and seeping in, and you will wake up one day and say, “Ah, I now see what it is about, I am beginning to understand’.  Do not be impatient with yourself when you are studying a difficult passage in Scripture; keep on, hold on, reading or listening; and suddenly you will find not only do you know much more than you thought you knew, but you will be able to follow and understand.  – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans Volume 6, p. 189