One of the benefits of being filled with the Holy Spirit is that you are then enabled tp appreciate spiritual things. Without the Holy Spirit, spiritual things seem to be mere nonsense to you.
1 Cor 2:14 But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them [of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them] because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated.
When you are not spirit filled reading the Bible is a very laborous task and very difficult to understand but with the Holy Spirit you eat the Bible up like candy.
1 Cor 2:15 But the spiritual man tries all things,he examines, investigates, inquires into, questions, and discerns all things..........
If you have trouble undersanding the Bible and or if you have little desire to even read the Bible then chances are high that you are not spirit filled.
