NIV Once a day Bible
The NIV Once a Day
Bible is a great concept, not only is it chronologically arranged, but it is
also divided into 365 daily readings.
Last year our church went through the Bible in a year using a
chronological reading plan. Though it
was really neat to be reading it chronologically, it was a bit tiring flipping
back and forth to the different texts for each individual day. Then I started reviewing Bibles that were
already chronologically arranged, and that helped a lot. Some, or all of them, had one year Bible
reading plans listed in the back of the Bible; this Bible is neat in that it is
already arranged that way so you don't have to flip to the back of the book,
you just read until the next 'Day' heading.
It would be nice if they would come out with a hardcover edition as the
softcover feels a bit flimsy.
At the end of each
day's readings, there are little reflective paragraphs at the end, talking
about what you've just read. Some are
pretty good, others…not so much. For
instance, one of them, speaking of God's planned future mercy to Israel in
spite of their sin, the comment is made, "God
is still planning and dreaming. He never
gives up." First, that
statement sounds too irreverential(God has 'dreams' not fixed plans?), makes
God seem as though He is not sovereign, and finally, almost implies that there
is no Hell. How is that? Well, the statement, "He never gives
up" implies that He will never judge sinners who are not in Christ, but we
know from God's Word that He will, and it is His choice when He will do so. His patience does have an end, the judgment
is coming.
But, aside from some
things like the above, this chronological Bible is a great tool to keep
yourself in the Word. Oh, and I want to
mention that I appreciate that this chronological arrangement has all of the
prophecies of Isaiah before the exile and the return of Israel under
Cyrus. One chronological Bible I
reviewed had the prophecies of Cyrus given at the time of Cyrus simply because
God had Isaiah state his name in the prophecy, the arrangers seemed to think
that God couldn't know what Cyrus's name was before he came on the scene. I appreciate that the arrangers for this
Bible acknowledged God's sovereignty and accuracy in prophecy.
I received a free copy of this book
from the BookLook bloggers program in exchange for a review(my review did not
have to be favorable)
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