The lamp to my feet and a light for my path

As I was reading "The Wonder of Learning" I was really struck by the analogy of the light. It explained the relationship between the Word and the world so well. When you are walking down a dark path you need a flashlight to provide some sort of light, otherwise you could not see in front of you and you would surely stumble and hurt yourself. But when you are walking on this path you do not stare directly at the light. If you did, everything else would be eclipsed and mobility would be even more blind then before. You must use the light, pointing it in front of you, illuminating your path. The light will make your path clear, giving you the ability to traverse the various cracks and stumbling points successfully. This can be compared to the Bible and how it gives us light on our paths of life. Life is a dark and dangerous path, we need light to help us get through, pointing out the dangers and providing sight. But we cannot only look to the Bible. We have to look at our path ahead of us. If all we do is focus on the Bible we become blind to our peripheries. This is an incredible insight in my opinion. We tend to look at this two polar ends, the world and the word. But it is our job to integrate the two, to look at the world through the lens of the word.
When Marshall first said that the Bible could not tell us everything we needed to know I was taken aback. It seemed counterintuitive to think that God had not provided us with everything we needed. But that is not what he means. God did not leave us empty handed. He gave us the outline for us to follow, but because we are all different we have our own path to follow. Even still I did not fully understand why we would not use God's word for all our problems. In all my Christian life it has been stressed to me over and over the importance of the Bible, God's revelation to us. But then Marshall makes his point clear when he explains the analogy with basketball. There are rules that define the objective and what you can and can't do in the game, but this does not define all the intricacies of how the game will be played. You can know all the technical rules, but that will not make you the greatest basketball player. You have to know how to play in those rules. The Bible is our rule book. It is our answers to how we should live life and what we can and can't do. But it does not tell us how live every moment out, that is for us and our free will to decide.
It is so important for us to integrate our faith with our life. We cannot see our every day experiences and God as two separate entities. God cannot be contained to Sunday morning! Or to youth group, or bible study, or a retreat. God should fill our lives. We need him to light our path, so that we make it through life without constantly stumbling and falling in futility.