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 and how we fit into

that story today. This is day 40. My gosh, day 40 already. You guys, we've been trucking along,

and this has been 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,

first 39 days, we have reached our kind of our lent 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 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.

And we're reading from Exodus chapter 22, Leviticus chapter 15, and Psalm chapter 76.

Couple reminders. The Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version,

second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. It's awesome.

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