The Doctor: Too Many ‘Devotional’ Bible Readings

We are all so morbidly concerned with ourselves and our own problems that we even go to the Bible as a book which is going to help us with our problems. We want some help, we want this and that and we go to the Bible, as if it were some sort of dispensary to deal with the so called ‘mumps and measles of our souls’.  Our very approach to the Bible is so subjective instead of being objective. How often, I wonder, do we go to the Bible saying to ourselves, ‘I am going to read the Bible because I want to see what God has done; I  am going to read my Bible in order  that I can look at God’s acting and intervening in history’? But, the Bible is not just a book that answers my little questions and tells me various things that I may want to know; the Bible is the record of the activity of God, the manifestations of God, God’s mighty acts and deeds.  – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Revival, p. 96