Day 210: Speaking God's Word (2026)

**Fr. Mike Schmitz** (0:00)
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Hi, my name is Fr. Mike Schmitz and you're listening to The Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life to 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. It is day 210 and we're reading from two chapters in Isaiah, 41 and 42, Ezekiel chapter 2 and 3, and also Proverbs chapter 12 verses 1 through 4 As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the 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/bible in a Year. If you have not yet done that, you would know, well, you wouldn't know if you have not yet done that, that you can check off every day. That's what I've been doing. It's awesome. I don't know. It's not awesome. It's fine. It's a thing I do. And it helps me see that I'm making progress, not only by going through the actual Bible, but also, you know, checking off the days. I like to see what's coming up ahead. Also, you can subscribe to this podcast if you have not yet subscribed. As I said, it is day 210, and we are heavily into the Book of Consolation now in Isaiah. It started yesterday with Chapter 40, and it continues today. Now, at the same time, remember, even though we're in 41, 42, and following all the way to 66 chapters of Isaiah, there will be words of consolation, words of promise, words of prophecy. We have some phenomenal, phenomenal chapters coming up in Isaiah, as well as the fact that now we are in chapters 2 and 3 in Ezekiel. We continue with Ezekiel's vision that he had yesterday of this incredible, he saw these four winged creatures, right? And above them, seated on the throne, is this image of divinity, I think. Who knows? I mean, yes, it is divinity, but it's just incredible and remarkable and amazing. And we pick up that vision in Ezekiel chapter 2 and 3 today. As I said, it's Isaiah 41, 42, Ezekiel 2 and 3, Proverbs 12, verses 1 through 4
The Book of the Prophet Isaiah chapter 41, Israel assured of God's help.
Listen to me in silence, O islands. Let the peoples renew their strength. Let them approach, then let them speak. Let us together draw near for judgment. Who stirred up one from the east, whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot. He makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow. He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod. Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he. The islands have seen and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble, they have drawn near and come. Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, Take courage. The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer, him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good, and they fasten it with nails, so that it cannot be moved. But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend, you whom I took from the ends of the earth and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, You are my servant, I have chosen you, and not cast you off. Fear not, for I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand. Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confusion. Those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish. You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them. Those who war against you shall be as nothing at all. For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand. It is I who say to you, Fear not, I will help you.