Most people can read. However, fewer and fewer people these days have the patience or attention span or motivation o read more than a sentence or two (For those who are to this point, I would suspect you are part of the less than 5% of the people in the world who will read something this long so I am not preaching to the choir). We find ourselves lost and confused because we fail to fully read directions, read books, read instructions, read emails, read the "long text", read the right things and/or read the Bible.
Lord, I am sorry for making life more difficult for myself by failing to read.