by Nancy Guthrie
The One Year Book of Discovering Jesus in the Old Testament by Nancy Guthrie is a daily devotional that highlights and reveals Jesus through many of the Old Testament books. First of all to preface, I am not a huge fan of most daily devotionals nor am I in favor of daily devotionals being the primary source of the daily reading of scriptures. However, I am in favor of adding it to a daily diet of your personal reading of scripture. When I came upon this book I have thoroughly enjoyed making it apart of that daily diet.
Unlike most daily devotionals, this is not filled with simple heart warming stories that feel like something out of a “Chicken Soup book”. If you are looking for a feel good story to start your day with a dose of a Bible verse and cliché-ridden jargon; then this is not the daily devotional for you. What you will find is a lot of scripture with little opinion from the author. To go along with the scripture in each devotional you will find an explanation of where Jesus is in this scripture, often explained with history and/or New Testament scriptures to to back it up.
I was truly impressed with the many attributes of Christ revealed in the book through the use of Old Testament scripture. I found this book very refreshing and and accurate depiction of the the prophesies involving the end times and the coming millennium kingdom by Jesus not only being a Prince of Peace but a righteous judge that will judge the earth. Most of all you will fall more in love with Jesus by learning about his many attributes revealed through the Old Testament, a time where Christ was not yet manifest of the earth. Nancy Guthrie has done the body of Christ a favor by writing this book and giving us something we would not find in any other daily devotional. I highly recommend this book as an addition to your daily dose of scripture.
Johan Heinrichs
Tyndale House Publishers has provided me with a copy of this book for my review. I was not required to give a positive review.
