The Valley of Elah—How Your Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary

God will make your simple faithfulness great in His time.

At first glance, the valley seems like nothing remarkable. Just a road winding its way up into the Hill Country of Judea. A large satellite dish sits on one hill. A dry stream bed divides patches of tall weeds. Greenhouses clump together next to wheat fields.

(Photo: The Elah Valley. Courtesy of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands)

Like the other valleys in Israel’s Judean foothills today, theValley of Elah appears so commonplace. Ver...