FORMATION in the information age

I realized this afternoon that in a significant way most of
my life’s interactions with the Scripture have revolved
around gaining information. I have read the Bible to gain
the facts about doctrine or history or one thing or another.
I was reading Acts 25:15 tonight and my eyes kind of played
a trick on me and for some reason I saw inFORMATION and I
remembered we are not supposed to read the Bible for
information, we are to read it for FORMATION. It is a tool
to be used to shape our soul. I wonder if this reading for
information instead of reading for formation is why it is so
easy to be “ever learning, but never coming to a knowledge
of the truth?” (2 Tim 3:7)