Are you reading me?

During a recent sermon, my senior pastor said something obvious but that was so revelatory to me: "As we read the Word of God, the Word of God is also reading us." 

Often than not, I tend to regard reading the Bible as a one-way flow. I read and then I reflect on what I've read. My pastor's comments reminded me that even as I read God's Word, God's Word is also reading me and convicting me through the Holy Spirit so that I am drawn closer and closer to Him. 

Hebrews 4:12 (ESV)

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV)

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.