Mt. Gilboa was where Saul and his sons lost their lives. It has a sad connotation. The name means “water bursting from the rock.” Interestingly, the old king made his exit there, and God transitioned the kingdom to David. In a sense, it was a place of new beginnings also. The old is past, the new is come.

When we accept Christ, He becomes the new King of our lives. We enter the waters of baptism that have burst from the Rock. Gilboa now has a fresh, new significance.

I painted the inside of a old Methodist church in Gilboa, Ohio. The fellow I worked for, Curtis Baldridge, lived in Gilboa.

READ/HEAR: 1 Sam. 29-31