Our Daily Walk

It is F. B. Meyer's beloved daily devotional: for every day of the year, a Scripture text, a short warm meditation on the Christian's daily walk, and a closing prayer. Arranged by month around themes of the walk with God — the walk of faith, the walk in the light, and more — it offers steady, practical encouragement for living the Christian life day by day.

Frederick Brotherton Meyer was a Baptist pastor and evangelist in England around the turn of the twentieth century, much loved as a devotional writer and preacher of the deeper Christian life. He wrote many short, warm-hearted books; Our Daily Walk, published in 1913, is his year-long daily devotional, drawing on his gift for practical, heart-warming exposition.

As a reading for each day of the year, grouped by month around themes of the believer's 'walk' — of faith, in the light, in love, and so on. Each day gives a verse of Scripture, a brief meditation, and a closing prayer, so the reader is led not only to reflect but to turn the day's truth into prayer.

The idea, drawn from Scripture's frequent language of 'walking' with God, that the Christian life is lived step by step, day by day, in fellowship and obedience. Meyer's meditations apply this to ordinary life, encouraging the reader to walk faithfully, trustingly, and lovingly with God through each day rather than only at special moments.

Their warmth and practicality. Meyer writes as a pastor close to the ordinary struggles of his readers, applying Scripture directly and tenderly to daily life. His meditations are neither dryly doctrinal nor sentimentally vague, but practical, Christ-centred encouragements meant to strengthen the believer for the actual walk of each day.

Yes — a distinctive feature of Our Daily Walk is that each day closes with a short prayer, turning the meditation into worship. Meyer meant the reader not merely to consider the day's truth but to pray it, so the devotional leads naturally from reflection into fellowship with God at the start of each day.

For any Christian wanting a warm, practical daily reading to guide their walk with God through the year. Meyer's gentle, encouraging style suits believers of every stage, and the book has long been valued as a faithful companion for daily devotion, joining Scripture, reflection, and prayer for each day.

At today's date, and then one reading each day. Like other year-long devotionals it is meant to be lived with across a year rather than read straight through, so the best way to begin is simply to take up today's entry — Scripture, meditation, and prayer — and let it shape the day's walk with God.