Day 186: Struggles with Self-Interest (2026)

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 eighty-six. We are reading today from 2 Kings chapter twenty, from 2 Chronicles chapter thirty-one. We're also praying Psalm one hundred and forty-four. 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 subscribe to this podcast, you can. You don't have to, but you can. As I said, it is today. [laughs] It, it is today. [laughs] Today is the day it is. It's day one eighty-six, and we are reading 2 Kings twenty, 2 Chronicles thirty-one, and we are praying Psalm one hundred and forty-four. 2 Kings, chapter twenty. Hezekiah's illness. In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.’” Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying, “Remember now, O Lord, I beg you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. And before