A Year of Hope

The goal of this book is to get people to read the Bible. Those who know the Word of God can know the will of God and walk in the way of Jesus. This is the great need of our day. The reading plan for each day listed at the top corner of each page is the “M’Cheyne Reading Plan” developed by Robert Murry M’Cheyne (1813-1843). He was twenty-nine, when he went to be with the Lord. He left behind a great legacy of faith and a wonderful tool for reading the Bible. This plan allows for a person to read the Psalms and New Testament twice a year and the Old Testament once a year. While reading all four chapters is preferred, those reading this devotion can limit themselves to reading one chapter a day. The underlined chapter is the one being written about. If a choice must be made between reading the devotion or the chapter of the Bible, please read the Bible. The intent of the book is to help readers gain an overall understanding of the Bible by using a central theme to guide. The theme of the book is hope. Hope is the confident realization that good is occurring and the confident expectation that good is going to come. That is the simple definition being used throughout this volume.