Bible Marginalia- Study Helps

Bible Marginalia Series- #51

Visited En Gedi again on this last trip.

David's hideout from Saul.

 A desert oasis by the Dead Sea.

Saul comes with 3000 men to find David here.

David spares Saul's life here.

1 Samuel 24

The journaling bibles that many of us

 are using do not have

 "study helps" or notes in them.

 The margin on this page was helpful

 to place what I had learned and seen

at En Gedi.

It is wilderness.

 It is thought the David 

might have written a number

 of his Psalms while here.

This level of land is 400 meters 

below sea level-

 is the lowest place on earth.

And here-

 as low as you can go- 

David finds refuge.

The landscape becomes

 a fortress and hideout.

The Lord meets David here.

He fills us in our most desolate places.

The Lord finds us hiding in 

"our caves-" 

 in the margins of our lives.

And in this space that frames our life-

He creates soul renewal.

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