Fr. Mike reflects on King Saul's despair in the face of trial, and how he seeks other means of comfort when he feels like God has abandoned him. God never abandons us, especially in the midst of danger. Fr. Mike invites us to place our trust in God's promise, instead of resorting to sinful acts. Today's readings are 1 Samuel 27-28 and Psalm 34. 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 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. Now, we fit into that story today.
It is day 118. We have two days left, including today, for 1 Samuel before we jump into 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles. We are reading two chapters from 1 Samuel today. It is 1 Samuel chapter 27 and 28. We're also praying Psalm 34. That's treinta y cuatro for those Spanish speakers who know how to speak Spanish numbers, but we'll be reading this in English.
Speaking of the translation of which you'll be reading is the Revised Standard Version, 2nd Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. Speaking of Spanish Bibles, actually, this is not, no one told me to say this. I am literally looking. on my bookshelf and I can see the Spanish version of the great adventure Bible timeline, uh, sorry, great adventure Bible.
They have it in Spanish. So if you are someone who are more, you're more accustomed to reading scripture in Spanish, they do have a Spanish great adventure Bible. It is also the revised standard version, second Catholic edition, I believe, or maybe it's something, I don't know. That was just something I said, but I do have the Spanish version. They have it from Ascension.
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Day 118, we're reading 1 Samuel 27 and 28, and we're praying Psalm 34. 1 Samuel chapter 27, David goes to King Akshish in Gath. And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines.
Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand. So David arose and went over, he and the 600 men who were with him, to Akshish, the son of Maok, king of Gath. And David dwelt with Akshish and Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal's widow.
And when it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, he sought for him no more. Then David said to Akshish, If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you? So that day Akshish gave him Ziklag. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.
And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months. Now David and his men went up and made raids upon the Geshurites, the Gerzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur to the land of Egypt.
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