Day 117: Reverence and Faithfulness (2026)
4/27/202612 min
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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[outro music] Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day one hundred and seventeen. Congratulations for getting all this way. We're reading from First Samuel chapter twenty-six, just one chapter in First Samuel today, as well as praying Psalm fifty-six. As always, the translation that I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan so you know exactly what the reading will be every single day, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking Subscribe. That is why the button is there, and that is why I keep saying it basically every day for the previous hundred and sixteen days. And this day, day one hundred and seventeen, is no different. As I'm saying, [laughs] as I was saying, it is day one seventeen. We're reading from First Samuel chapter twenty-six, and we're praying Psalm fifty-six. First Samuel chapter twenty-six. David again spares Saul’s life. Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the east of Jeshimon?” So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph with three thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.