Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.
In a dark and desolate world we need a lamp to help us see the way. This lamp is the Holy Bible and should be used often. A trap most Christians get into is they consider Sunday’s service to be enough to get them through the week. Honestly if I just did that, as I have many times before in my life, the world would take over and I would be consumed within it quickly. No we have to make a conscious effort to love God and be in his word often.
God is called the “Word” and often we confuse that with the actual text being God. That is a slippery slope since really the reason the Bible seems living is the Holy Spirit working within you as you are reading. The book is in no way God or a manifestation of God, but rather a collection of God inspired writings that help us understand Jesus and God.
In John 1:1 the “word” is a translation of the Greek word logos which could also mean thought, speech, account, meaning, reason, principle or logic among other things. So the “word” in the original may be more than just the writings, but the idea of God. Don’t get so hung up on the literal since they Bible was not always there, first came God, then came our writings of God.