Day 127: Kindness for the House of Saul (2026)

Father Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[outro jingle] 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. Today is day one hundred and twenty-seven. We are reading from Second Samuel chapter nine and First Chronicles chapter two. We're also praying Psalm twenty-eight. I know yesterday was kind of a long [chuckles] episode, so shorten it down. I mean, not that we did it on purpose, but it is only three chapters basically today. We're reading, as always, from the translation called Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. Also, if you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. And if you've not yet subscribed to this podcast, you can subscribe to this podcast whenever you'd like to subscribe to this podcast. Subscribe to this podcast. [chuckles] It's day one hundred and twenty-seven. We're reading Second Samuel chapter nine, First Chronicles chapter twelve, and Psalm twenty-eight. The Second Book of Samuel, chapter nine. David's kindness to Mephibosheth. And David said, "Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?" Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David. And the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" And he said, "Your servant is he." And the king said, "Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I may