Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hey friends, welcome back to Year in the

Bible. My name is Alexa, and I'm here with my co-hosts for the week, Katie. Hi, everyone.

So excited to be back with you guys today. Today we're going to go a little deeper into the passage

we read annotated yesterday, Psalm 8-1 through 9. So Katie, to start us off, can you tell us where

Psalm 8 falls in the biblical story? Yes, so it loves you. So Psalm 8 is a Psalm of David, perhaps Israel's most

famous king. We are quite familiar with David through our studies in the past few weeks,

but 1 Samuel 1314 describes David as a man after God's own heart. And in this Psalm, we can see why.

David rightly worships God as king of creation. And though David is a king of

Israel himself, he gives God the glory. We are not sure exactly when in David's life that he penned this

psalm, but we do know that kings and leadership in this time period were a very important topic of

conversation in Israel.

In today's study day, we saw that Israel had rejected God as their king and instead wanted

an earthly king like their neighboring nations. God relented, providing a king whose purpose was to

lead the people in worship of the true king, God. Saul was Israel's first king who failed.

And even though David was a great king, he too fell short in one way or another. So Psalm 8

not only reminds Israel of the authority and the majesty of God, their true king, but it also

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