Walking with God, Step 1: Read the Book!

The first step to walking with God (once you have given your life to Christ), is reading your bible. How can you walk with God, if you have no clue where He's going, how He plans to get there, or what His values are for executing His plans. It always makes me chuckle a little, when people say they can't hear from God, yet do not read their Bible regularly. Think about this for a minute. God sent his son to die for all our sins: past, present, and future so that we could dwell forever in His presence blameless and pure. He sent us a "helper" called the Holy Spirit to help us discern His will. Lastly, but certainly not least, He has given us the full and complete word of God containing: 66 Books, 1189 Chapters, 31,173 Verses, and 774,746 Words. There are so many things God has already revealed to us, why not start there when you want to hear from God or know His will? I rarely feel God communicate to me as clearly as I do when I am reading the bible. Jesus himself refers to the scriptures when debating the Pharisees (Matt 21:42, 22:29, etc). New Testament writers time and again refer to the "scriptures" or the "word" as a basis for their belief that Jesus was the Christ, the savoir of the world. If the word of God was important to those who acutally spent time with Jesus in the flesh, should it not be important to us as well?