Day 277: Such a Time as This (2025)

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

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🗓️ 4 October 2025

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Summary

Today's readings remind us that all good things come from God, and he calls us to specific places and times for a reason. In the book of Esther, Fr. Mike points out that Esther was perfectly positioned to fulfill God's will. We too, can examine our lives and realize that there are places God has brought us, "for such a time as this". The readings are Nehemiah 9, Esther 4 and 14, and Proverbs 21:9-12.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:07.7	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:10.7	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:13.1	Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:16.8	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
0:20.2	It is day 277. We're reading Nehemiah chapter 9, Esther, chapter 4 and 14, and as well as Proverbs chapter 21 versus 9 through 12. As always, the Bible translation I am reading from is the revised standard version, 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 slash Bible in the year. You can also subscribe
0:40.7	to this podcast, but click on and subscribe and receiving the daily episodes and daily updates.
0:45.1	It's day 277. We're reading Nehemiah 9, Esther 4 and 14, Proverbs chapter 21 versus 9 through 12.
0:59.1	The Book of Nehemiah chapter 9, public confession and worship.
1:07.4	Now on the 24th day of this month, the sons of Israel were assembling with fasting and in sackcloth and with earth upon their heads.
1:12.4	And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. And they stood up in their place and read from the
1:17.8	book of the law of the Lord their God for a fourth of the day. For another fourth of it, they made
1:22.9	confession and worshipped the Lord their God. Upon the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani,
1:29.4	Kadmiel, Shabanaia, Buni, Shurabaya, Bani, and Shanani. And they cried with a loud voice to the
1:36.9	Lord their God. Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabaya, Shirabaya, Shurabaya,
1:43.6	Hodaya, Shabanaia, and Pethahaya, said,
1:47.0	Stand up and bless the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting.
1:51.4	Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
1:56.3	Ezra's prayer to God.
1:58.3	And Ezra said, You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of
2:04.2	heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them.
2:10.4	And you preserve all of them. And the host of heaven worships you. You are the Lord, the God
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