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, everyone, welcome to another episode

of a year in the Bible. My name is Alexa, and I'm joined this week by my friend and co-worker Katie.

Hi, Katie. Hey, friends. In the last episode, we discussed the annotation day on Psalm 22, 1 through 2,

and now we want to dive deeper into this passage and learn more about it. Yes. So to start us off,

Alexa, can you share with us where this passage falls in the biblical story?

Yeah. Last week we discussed Psalm 8, and this week we get to discuss another Psalm, which I just love,

because the book of Psalms is just one of my favorites in scripture. The Psalms were written over the

course of Israel's history, and they were essentially the Israelites songbook. The Psalms had different authors,

but many of them were written by King David. And David went through a lot of hardships

before and during his time as king, but David just regularly looked to God in his hard times.

And while we do know of some Psalms that were written during specific

times in David's life, Psalm 22 doesn't have a specific event linked to it. But we do know from other

Psalms and from First and Second Samuel that David often had people against him, King Saul, for example.

So it's not out of the realm of possibility

that David wrote Psalm 22 when he was running from Saul. But even though we don't know that for

sure, what we do know is that David was experiencing some kind of oppression from an enemy.

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