Day 173: Confidence in God (2026)
6/22/202625 min
Fr. Mike talks about how we see both an abundance of faith, and a great lack of faith in our readings today. While the widow Elisha visits shows us a beautiful example of walking in faith, king Ahaz fails to repent as he falls deeper into sin. Today's readings are 2 Kings 4, 2 Chronicles 28, and Psalm 127.
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First 90 secondsFather Mike Schmitz· Host0:00
[on-hold 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 seventy-three. We have three chapters. We have Second Kings chapter four, we have Second Chronicles chapter twenty-eight, and Psalm one hundred and twenty-seven. As I mentioned before a thousand times, [chuckles] we are... Maybe one hundred seventy-two times. The Bible translation that we are reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition. I am using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. And if you'd like to subscribe to this podcast, you can click on Subscribe to receive daily episodes. As I said yesterday, I don't know if you caught this at the end of the commentary, I guess, uh, we are... This is our last day in Second Chronicles for roughly the next, I don't know, if I'm bad at math, maybe nine days. We're gonna take a little nine-day hiatus because we're jumping into some prophets. You know, we have Elijah the prophet and Elisha the prophet, who have not written anything that we know of. But we're also go- we're going to the written prophets because those written prophets have a word, and that word is [chuckles] a word of correction. It is a word that is of warning, and it is a word that is calling the people of Israel and the kingdom of Israel in the north back to faithfulness, covenant faithfulness with God. And we'll see what happens. They may or may not listen. Uh, spoiler, they don't. Um, [chuckles] so we're gonna, we're gonna hear those prophets in the next nine days,