With so many important things demanding our time today, why should I take the time to study the Bible? Often when Bible class teachers and preachers encourage 'people to study the Bible they are faced with the question of "Why!" Some people reason that they come to worship services one, two or maybe even three times a week and is that not enough of their time for Bible study? Let's face it, if all the Bible study you are getting is what you get by coming to Bible classes Sunday morning and worship :services plus Wednesday evening your spiritual growth is very little if any at all! Our spiritual growth is tied directly to the amount of spiritual nourishment we take in. If we are only eating spiritually once or twice a week, what happens to our spiritual body the rest of the time? Just think what would happen to our physical bodies if we only ate one to three times a week? It would indeed make us weak! In fact, it would be life threatening.
Why should a person study the Bible? Well, aside from the spiritual need of our spiritual person, we need to study the Bible because it is the only revelation that God has given mankind. Yes, we can see that there is a God through nature, but that does not reveal His will to us. It is only through the Bible that we find God's will revealed and what He wants and requires of us. When we come to understand the importance God places on His revelation, the Bible, we come to some understanding of its importance to us and our existence both in the here and now and in the hereafter. God placed so much importance on revealing His will to mankind that He sent by His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, for we read in Hebrews 1:1-2, "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;" Just think, this message was too important to be sent by dreams or visions, it was too important to be sent by an angel or even a prophet. This message of the New Testament was so important to God that He sent His Son with that message! That is how important the Bible is to God! When we come to grips with that fact and what it means, then we begin to understand a little bit why Bible study is so important.
Why should a person study the Bible? Because it can make a person wise unto salvation. "But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;" (2 Timothy 3:14-15). Why study the Bible? Your soul's eternal destiny depends upon it!