that distract our attention from the great highway running from ruin to renewal. If we read the Scripture stories, the Psalms, the prophets, or the law disconnected from the primary narrative arc of redemption, we will find them distracting or confusing, and hard to apply properly to life today. Unfortunately, many of us are barely literate when it comes to the flow of redemptive history. We go to our Bibles for something to help us deal with our circumstances rather than to see how God is dealing