Day 115: King Saul is Spared (2025)

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike uses King Saul as an example that God does not unchoose those he has chosen, and never loses faith in us. Even if we feel someone is in power unjustly, it's God who decides who holds power, not us. Today's readings are 1 Samuel 24 and Psalm 57.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:07.9	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:11.0	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:14.4	Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation.
0:18.8	Discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
0:22.3	It is day 115.
0:24.6	And we are reading from 1st Samuel chapter 24 or also praying Psalm 57, as always.
0:29.9	The translation of the Bible that I am reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition.
0:34.3	I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
0:36.2	If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year.
0:41.6	And you also are invited to subscribe in your podcast app to receive daily episodes that you don't
0:46.1	have to hunt for every single day because they will find you. They will hunt you down and make
0:50.2	sure that you listen to the Bible today like you're doing on day 1.15 is a reading from
0:54.8	1 Samuel chapter 24 and Psalm 57. 1 Samuel chapter 24 David spares Saul's life.
1:04.5	When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, behold, David is in the wilderness
1:09.3	of Aungedi. Then Saul took three thousand chosen
1:12.7	men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the wild goats rocks.
1:18.3	And he came to the sheepfolds, by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself.
1:23.2	Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave, and the men of David
1:27.6	said to him, Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, behold, I will give your enemy into
1:33.0	your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.
1:37.7	Then David arose and stealthily cut off the skirt of Saul's robe.
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