The goal of reading the Bible is communing with God.

As we reorient our Bible reading, we begin to see the activity more like reading a good autobiography—where we get to know and love the author—than an instruction manual. Reading Scripture shouldn’t lead to changing one aspect of our character or giving up some small amount of time; it should remind us that Jesus is calling us to give up everything (Phil 3:8-10), even our own lives (Luke 14:26), so that he might change all of us (1 Thess. 5:23).