Why read the bible?

“The Bible isn’t just a potpourri of pithy, wise, or spiritual sayings from which we can pick up a nugget here and a nugget there. Not, it is a grand, sweeping, world-encompassing story that traces the history of God’s dealings with mankind from the very beginning to the very end. If we really want to understand what God is doing and what he would have us to do as his people, we need to have a good grasp of what that story is, what its main themes are, what the problem is, what God’s remedy to the problem is, and what it all looks like when the story ends.”