By Ronnie Collier Stevens

This devotional takes you thoughtfully into the book of John.

In his youth, the Apostle John labored as a fisherman on his father’s boat. He then followed the itinerant ministry of Jesus of Nazareth for three years. He was dismissed by the Sanhedrin of Israel as one “ignorant and unlearned”. In spite of the official disdain, he wrote a book which has simply astonished the world. Somehow, John the fisherman and disciple was able to give us the most luminous theology in the history of writing. His arguments challenge the most resistant skeptic. His subtleties dazzle the profoundest scholar. His works accomplish those very different feats at the same time. Such a thing is impossible, but for the inspiration of God. This companion volume to John’s Gospel is meant, in a few minutes a day, to take the reader mid-way through the Gospel in the course of a year. No one can do our devotions for us. What is offered is a beckoning, in John’s words, to come closer to the Jesus whom John knew. He is well qualified to bring us closer. He once lay his head on the breast of the Son of God and the Savior of the world.