A Year With Jesus by R.P. Nettelhorst

While this is a great resource for making your walk with God feel closer, it is the last time I agree to review a devotional book because it is not fair to the author for anyone to push through the book in a week ( I read it in 3 days) and then write a review or give an opinion on it when it was written to be SLOWLY ABSORBED OVER THE PERIOD OF A YEAR AND INGESTED GRADUALLY.
That being said, I give this book 5 stars.
It is physically attractive and well put together. It has sections broken down as follows:

Love and Hate

Truths and Lies

Arrogance and Humility

Friends and Enemies

Belief and Disbelief

Patience and Impatience

Deserved and Undeserved

Good and Evil

Fidelity and Treachery

Life and Death

One of the finest features is that it begins on Day 1 : not "January 1st". Any day that you pick it up can be your first day.
The author, R.P. Nettelhorst, writes in a style similar to Tim Lahaya. It is a book filled with the words of Jesus, and then accompanied with a brief, daily narrative designed to walk the reader slowly, one day at a time, down a year long journey with God to help us get to know God better.
You can not rush a friendship : they take time, sometimes years to build. The times between 2 friends will not always be good but they will always be.
Friendships that are meant to be will endure past the hard times.
A friendship with God is the same way. There are times when we think God has turned His back on us and we dont want to talk to Him. That can happen with any friendship.

That is the benefit of this book: to help you establish and understand that what we have with God IS a friendship.
If you will invest your time in this book, I believe that it will help you to grow closer to God; help you to see the connection between the Divine and us - us who are created in His image. Sometimes, we forget Who's we are.

I received this book from Book Sneeze in exchange for posting a review. If you think that in anyway influenced my opinion, I encourage you to read through my past reviews.