That barrier is exactly why a daily devotional works for men who feel out of their depth. Instead of handing you a thousand pages and wishing you luck, it gives you one short passage a day with the scripture already pulled out and explained in plain, everyday language. No cross-referencing, no theology degree, no guessing what a verse is supposed to mean.
The point isn’t to master the Bible overnight. It’s to start. One page, one idea, one minute. Men who hadn’t opened scripture in years are reading something every morning now, not because it got easier to understand, but because someone finally explained it in words that land. If the Bible has ever felt like it was written for someone else, this is the on-ramp.