Day 131: Hope for the Future (2026)

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 thirty-one, day one thirty-one, which is also one of my favorite psalms. It-- And we are reading not from that psalm, but from Second Samuel, chapter thirteen, also First Chronicles, chapter seventeen, and the psalm today that we're praying is Psalm thirty-five. As always, the translation that I am reading is from-- [chuckles] is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition. I am specifically reading from the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you wanna download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on Subscribe, and that would be wonderful. As I said, it is day one thirty-one. We are reading from Second Samuel, chapter thirteen, First Chronicles, chapter seventeen, and praying Psalm thirty-five. Second Samuel, chapter thirteen. Amnon defiles Tamar. Now Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar. And after a time Amnon, David's son, loved her. And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her. But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother. And Jonadab was a