Day 117: Reverence and Faithfulness (2025)

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🗓️ 27 April 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike reveals how David exemplifies the virtues of reverence and faithfulness. David walks both as a man of faith and as a fallen son of God, but we continue to walk with him because we too are striving for a life with Christ. Today's readings are 1 Samuel 26 and Psalm 56.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:07.8	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:14.0	Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:18.2	discovering how the story of salvation unfold and how we fit into that story today. It is day 117. Congratulations for getting all this way. We're reading from 1st Samuel
0:26.7	26, just one chapter in 1st Samuel today, as well as praying Psalm 56. As always, the translation
0:33.2	that I am reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the
0:37.4	Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
0:38.7	If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan so you know exactly what the
0:42.8	reading will be every single day, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year.
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0:50.7	That is why the button is there.
0:52.2	And that is why I keep saying it. Basically every day
0:54.5	for the previous 116 days. And this day, day 117, is no difference. As I'm saying, as I was saying,
1:01.2	it is day 117. We're reading from 1st Samuel chapter 26 and we're praying Psalm 56.
1:10.2	1st Samuel chapter 26. David again spares Saul's life. Then the Zipfites came to Saul at
1:17.9	Ghibia saying, is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hakila, which is on the east of Jesimon?
1:23.4	So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Zip with 3,000 chosen men of Israel to seek David in the wilderness of Zip, and Saul encamped on the hill of Hakila, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshim.
1:34.8	But David remained in the wilderness, and when he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness, David sent out spies and learned of a certainty that Saul had come.
1:43.5	Then David arose, and came to the place where
1:45.5	Saul had encamped, and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner, the son of Nur, the commander of his
1:50.3	army. Saul was lying within the encampment, while the army was encamped around him. Then David said to
1:56.2	Ahimlech, the Hittite, and to Joab's brother, Abishai, the son of Ziruai, who will go down with me into
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