Meeting with Jesus

A Daily Bible Reading Plan for Kids

David Murray

Artwork by Scotty Reifsnyder

wheaton, illinois

Meeting with Jesus: A Daily Bible Reading Plan for Kids

Copyright © 2020 by David P. Murray

Published by Crossway

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Cover Design and Interior Artwork: Scotty Reifsnyder

First printing 2020

Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-6595-3

ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-6598-4

PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-6596-0

Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-6597-7

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Murray, David, 1966 May 28- author.

Title: Meeting with Jesus : a daily Bible reading plan for kids / David Murray.

Description: Wheaton : Crossway, 2020.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019009165 (print) | LCCN 2019022048 (ebook) | ISBN 9781433565960 (pdf) | ISBN 9781433565960 (mobi) | ISBN 9781433565984 epub) | ISBN 9781433565953 (tp)

Subjects: LCSH: Jesus Christ—Biography—Juvenile literature. | Bible. Gospels—Reading—Juvenile literature. | Bible. Gospels—Devotional use—Juvenile literature.

Classification: LCC BT302 (ebook) | LCC BT302 .M94 2020 (print) | DDC 226.0071—dc23

LC record available at https://​lccn.loc.gov/2019​0​0​9165

Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

MEETING WITH JESUS

How many people have you met in your life? Try to count them. Start with your parents, then your brothers and sisters, your neighbors, your friends. Add up those you know from school, church, vacations and so on. What number are you up to? Are you over a hundred yet?

You will meet even more people as you get older, go to different schools, play different sports, move to different houses, and do different jobs. You are going to meet so many people that eventually you will not be able to count them all or remember them all!

There are probably other people you would love to meet but they probably don’t want to meet you. Maybe it’s an athlete you admire, or a singer, or a businessperson. You think about them and hope one day to meet them, but they don’t know you and therefore don’t want to meet you.

But there is one person you must meet more than anyone else. And this person wants to meet with you too. And if you meet him, you will never forget him. His name is Jesus, and I want you to meet him because he is the most awesome person you can ever meet....