Day 182: The Inescapable God (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. It is day one hundred and eighty-two. We are reading from 2 Kings chapter sixteen, from Micah chapters one, two, three, and four, and we're also praying Psalm one hundred and thirty-nine, one of my favorite psalms in the Bible. I have a lot of favorites, I guess. But we also are introduced to the prophet Micah, which is pretty phenomenal. Micah is a contemporary of Isaiah in the Old Testament, and he is prophesying not just to, um, the people of Israel. He's prophesying to the people of Judah as well. He's prophesying to all of God's people and calling them back to repentance, telling them what's going to happen, uh, if they don't repent and don't turn back to the Lord. Sounds like a prophet. He is. So we're reading from Micah one through four today, and then tomorrow Micah five through seven. As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the 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, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. And if you want to, you can subscribe to this podcast by clicking on Subscribe. As I said, it's day one hundred and eighty-two, and I think that that means when you're halfway through, when you're halfway through this, today's readings, you will be halfway through the entire Bible. Is that accurate when it comes to math? Three hundred sixty-five divided by two is, what, a hundred and