Nothing will impact your spiritual growth more than reading the Bible consistently and with understanding. Have you been thinking about Bible reading plans and devotionals for 2024? I have. And here are some of the interesting helps I have found. Perhaps they will help you find a plan for your quiet time with the Lord.

Go to ESV.org and subscribe to a free reading plan or devotional. They offer a variety to devotional opportunities, some long term, some short term, some including videos. And here’s a bonus: they will email your subscriptions to you daily! How convenient!

Download a free version of Logos Bible software (mobile app, desktop app, web app). Yes, there is a free version with nearly $800 worth of resources including five different versions of the English Bible, two audio Bibles, a study Bible, a couple of commentaries, and one of the best devotionals ever written: Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon. Get the app for iOS here: https://apps.apple.com/app/id336400266. Visit www.logos.com for the other versions of the software.

One of my favorites is the free Study Bible app by Grace to You. It includes three devotionals and one reading plan. The devotionals are Drawing Near, Strength for Today, and Daily Readings from the Life of Christ, all written/compiled by John MacArthur. The reading plan (Daily Bible) provides the references for a plan similar to M’Cheyne’s plan to read through the Bible in a year. Get the iOS app here: https://apps.apple.com/app/id992237916.

For those of you who prefer to read ink on a page more than pixels on a screen, you can find Bible reading plans and print devotionals at a Christian bookstore. Some study Bibles have a reading plan in their appendices. I recommend reading through the Bible in a year or two and utilizing a devotional such as Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening or Faith’s Checkbook. Another classic is My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers. The two I mentioned above by John MacArthur, Strength for Today and Drawing Near are very good and available in print as well.

Ligonier Ministries has a helpful collection of Bible reading plans in PDF format that you can download and print. Click here to visit their page.

Spending time in the Word of God on a regular basis is the best recommendation I can give you. No discipline is more life-changing. If you miss a day, don’t give up or beat yourself up. Just start back. All of us miss days. If my goal is to read through the Bible in a year, what difference does it really make if I read it through in 365 days versus 400 days or 750 days? I still will have reached my goal. Truly though, that’s not the real goal. The real goal is to spend time hearing from the God of the universe who loves you so much that he sent His own Son to make you holy (Col. 1:22).

Happy New Year!