Fr. Mike reflects on the relationship between David and Abigail, and how the Lord calls David to be a better man through Abigail. Where has God put these types of relationships in our lives? Today's readings are 1 Samuel 25 and Psalm 63. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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Hi, my name's 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 116, and today we are reading one chapter from Samuel, again, 1 Samuel chapter 25. and the death of Samuel and the rise, well, the next step in David's life.
We're also praying from the book of Psalms, and we're praying Psalm 50, sorry, 63. My goodness. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can get that at ascensionpress.com Bible in a Year, and you wouldn't even need me to say this. Yeah, I would know right away. You would know right away that what we're praying is Psalm 63 today. Goodness gracious.
We're also reading from the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to also subscribe to this podcast, you can. You have my permission to do that if you'd like. Once again, as I said, it is day 116. We're reading 1 Samuel chapter 25. We're praying Psalm 63. 1 Samuel chapter 25. Death of Samuel.
Now Samuel died and all Israel assembled and mourned for him. And they buried him in his house at Ramah. David and Abigail. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was of good understanding and beautiful, but the man was churlish and ill-behaved. He was a Calebite. David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. So David sent 10 young men and David said to the young men, go up to Carmel and go to Nabal and greet him in my name. And thus you shall salute him.
Peace be to you and peace be to your house and peace be to all that you have. I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel. Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day.
Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David. When David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David, and then they waited. And Nabal answered David's servants, Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who are breaking away from their masters.
Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where? So David's young men turned away and came back and told him all this. And David said to his men, Every man belt on his sword, and every man of them belted on his sword.
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