Day 225: Our Will Versus God's Will (2025)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike reviews one of the most powerful verses in Proverbs, dealing with personal discernment and wanting to follow our own will instead of God's. He also goes into a deeper explanation of the prophet, Jeremiah, and how we ourselves can reflect the actions of Israel in the Old Testament. Today's readings are Jeremiah 2, Ezekiel 28, and Proverbs 14:9-12.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast,
0:07.3	where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:10.5	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:12.9	Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:17.0	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 225. We're reading from Jeremiah chapter 2. We just started yesterday, Jeremiah chapter 1. In Ezekiel chapter 28, we're also reading from Proverbs chapter 14 versus 9 through 12. As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition edition i'm using the great adventure bible from
0:37.5	ascension if you want to download your own bible in a year reading plan you can visit ascensionpress
0:41.4	com slash bible in a year and you also can subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe
0:46.0	and you receive daily episodes right in your i was going to say inbox but you don't get them
0:50.9	in your inbox you get them whenever you open up your app then you see them them right there. Bam, day 225. If you subscribe today, tomorrow, it'll be day 226, which is pretty
0:59.3	incredible. As I said, it's day 225. We are reading from Jeremiah 2, Ezekiel 28 and Proverbs 14
1:06.3	verses 9 through 12. The book of the prophet Jeremiah chapter 2 Israel's apostasy. The word of the Lord
1:15.0	came to me saying, Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord, I remember the
1:21.1	devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not
1:26.8	sown. Israel was holy to the Lord, the first
1:30.4	fruits of his harvest. All who ate of it became guilty. Evil came upon them, says the Lord.
1:37.0	Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, in all the families of the house of Israel. Thus
1:41.4	says the Lord, what wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me
1:46.1	and went after worthlessness and became worthless? They did not say, where is the Lord who brought us up
1:52.4	out of the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought
1:57.9	in deep darkness, in a land that none passes through where no man dwells.
2:03.0	And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things.
2:08.1	But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage and abomination.
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