It's quite staggering to think that everything that we need to know about how to live well is contained in the Bible. Everything. And all that we need to do is read it. But there is reading, and then there is reading. It's not that difficult for someone to learn how to understand words written on a page. But real reading understands that there is more. A good writer does more than just put words on a page. A good writer uses those words to point to the deeper, hidden things he is actually writing about. God is a good writer, a very good writer. So, reading His great work, the Bible, calls for looking beyond the words on the page and the sentences they form. And that's where the challenge is. Doing that, really reading, is hard. It takes time and effort. A reader of this sort reads and thinks and prays and then reads the same little bit again. It is as a person learns to read this way that he gains the riches of wisdom tucked away in the Bible, wisdom that results in a life well lived for Jesus.
'If you seek wisdom like silver and search for it like hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.' Proverbs 2.4,5