The Bible is a book that overflows with great ideas, and that is actually a nearly irreverent statement. These are not great ideas. These are the greatest ideas, because they are the ideas of God himself. The Bible is not, over against so much popular thinking today, a book for religious “kooks” who have forgotten how to think. The Bible is the book that opens up to us the unbounded, inexhaustible thought-world of God himself. The Bible opens up to us the ideas, the plans, the purposes – what the Bible calls the very wisdom – of God. To live in this universe, to feed on these ideas of God himself, is to find the Tree of Life. The father writing to his son in Proverbs 3 says, “My son . . . blessed is the one who finds wisdom . . . . She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called blessed” (Proverbs 3:13, 18). He who finds the wisdom of God finds the Tree of Life.

Seeing the Bible from this perspective will serve to emphasize the necessity of regular Scripture reading.  Since we are living in God’s created world, it behooves us to know what His thoughts about this world, and how to live in it, are.