Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible in the Year podcast.

We encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture.

The Bible in the 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.

This is day 40.

Oh my gosh, day 40 already.

You guys, we've been trucking along and this one of the things that has been such a blessing

has been being able to journey with you and has been able to, I know that it's been a

tough road for a lot of people these first 40 days, verse 39 days.

We have reached our kind of our length in the sense of like 40 days, kind of like, I

don't know, there's something there, there's something there, that'll preach.

But basically that faithfulness that you've experienced and that you've held on to, even

if this isn't literally day 40 for you, maybe you're catching up, maybe this is like 50

days into the program, or into the, into the Bible reading, but you're here on day 40.

That is completely fine.

In fact, it's one of the things that is encouraged.

I think striving for perfection is fine, but striving for what I can do is probably even

better because what the Lord requires of us is to do simply what we can.

He never asks us to do what we can't.

He is there to do what we can't and yet he calls us to do what we can.

So regardless of what day it actually is for you today is day 40.

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