No One Else Can Help Me
Marbs, it just seems like David is where I need to be right now, in reading this bible, at least I think so. Like I can’t get away, Daniel, Esther, nope, David, so we are going to talk about him again. I was today’s year-old (actually last year’s women’s bible study small group). When I found out that what Jesus said and the actions that took place during his crucifixion can be seen in Psalms 22. I beg your pardon?
All this time, the bible scholars were holding out on me! More like I guess I had other messages to receive over this one, but literally, you open up Psalms 22 and you see the crucifixion of Jesus. Now this was supposedly written when David was running from Saul because God chose him, David, to be the next King, and Saul was dismissed. I really want to talk about Saul Marbs, but I just can’t right now. I know there is something there, though.
Marbys, if you didn’t know, I love history, you will know today, so buckle down and let’s discover things together. We know Mary and Joseph, the parents of Jesus. Now Joseph was a descendant of David, and while writing up this post, it seems like Mary would have also had some lineage to David as well. David had a lot of kids, and they also had a lot of kids. It seems like the time frame between David and Jesus was roughly 1000 years apart, so in my last video, when I said David was like third generation great, I was so wrong.
Honestly, I feel like if Jesus wasn’t like Jesus He could have easily been that family relative that was like King David, yeah, he's my people, I come from that house or lineage. David and Jesus would have never met, but I am sure Jesus grew up knowing of King David and knowing that He was related to him. That is a historical research point number one. Number two is when I really was like, let’s get our popcorn and really and truly break it down. Now, apparently, people back in those days literally knew both history and scripture all in their heads. I mean, when you really think about it, what else could you have done to pass the time back then? Ain’t nobody pulling out Facebook and TikTok and doom scrolling. Why do we say doom scrolling? It just seems you're setting yourself up for failure. Sorry, Marbs, that is just how my mind works sometimes.
Education, pastime, recitals were all reviewing, reciting, and learning the history, poems, stories, and scriptures written down by generations before them that are being retold either by word of mouth or written documents. So to say that some of Jesus’s followers could have been reminded about David’s psalm being acted out in front of them wouldn’t be that far-fetched. This is the picture in my head, so you know Jesus right all the way up to when he was on the cross, and you are there seeing and hearing him, seeing all the stuff happening around, and then Jesus is like My God , my God, why have you abandoned me? Matthew 27:46 loosely quoted. I would have been like Jesus what you say? I don’t even think we or I would have put two and two together verses 47-49 says Some of the bystanders misunderstood and thought he was calling for the prophet Elijah. 48 One of them ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, holding it up to him on a reed stick so he could drink. 49But the rest said, “Wait! Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save him.”
Okay, let’s see what David says in Psalms 22 vs 1 My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? First part of verse1 NLT vs 8-9 is this the one who relies on the Lord? Then let the Lord save him! If the Lord loves him so much, let the Lord rescue him! Marbs! For the sake of being not too lengthy, that was just one comparison between these two events in history. Doesn’t it give you chills? David ain’t thinking about his generation after him, he's just thinking about how he will survive to become the anointed King, probably camped out in some cave trying to stay under Saul's radar. To Jesus, his descendant, saying the exact words also in his time of desperation. Maybe Jesus memorized Psalms 22, and him being a great teacher, had one last message for his followers before his death(learned that concept in my women’s bible study group). Maybe David, being led by God, had been moved to write this moment in his life and never would have thought that it would have ever survived 1000 years of recitals. I was chatting with a friend recently, and I literally said that a particular part of my life I wished I had kept, or rather kept up with writing in a diary or journaling. Because I literally can not remember specific details of an event that happened, and I wish I did remember in greater detail, because I am writing a book and wanted to recall this event. I wanted to retell the exact emotions, actions, and interactions that occurred because I know it was a very important event that happened, literally caused me to do a pivot in my life, and was actually cemented in my friend's mind as well.
Do you think that even if you were there at Jesus’s crucifixion, you would have remembered the words of a shepherd boy running for his life thousands of years before? Why would Jesus be saying this chapter? Could it also be that the desperation David felt so many years before was also being felt by Jesus while he was on the cross? The abandonment and suffering felt were so similar that all both men could have done was cry and beg God for help. Being helpless in their situation, they asked God where are you?
Remember, Marbs, I don’t claim to be a preacher or a cook, just someone trying to make content with these really and truly eye-opening situations from the bible. Did you know about these two events in the bible? Cause I sure didn’t know this.
Psalms 22: 10-11 NLT- I was thrust into your arms at my birth. You have been my God from the moment I was born. Do not stay so far from me, for trouble is near, and no one else can help me.
And that is what the bible says, not TJ.