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First Samuel chapter 9 verse 21.

Saul answered,

Am I not a Benjaminite from the least of the tribes of Israel?

And it's not my clan, the humblest of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin?

Why then have you spoken to me in this way?

When we read this passage, to me in this way.

When we read this passage, we think about how we've seen in Moses and Gideon, and

we'll see later in David and other places in the Bible where people feel unfit for that to

which God has called them and we've talked about this on previous podcast

episodes. What's interesting here though is that Saul has that kind of humility as God is

calling him to be king. His first reaction is who am I? Like I'm the least

one of the least tribes of Israel, the humblest of all the clans, like

why has God spoken to me in this way? So he's humble at the start of his life.

But that humility, as we read in the pages to come, turns into pride.

And Saul forgets who he is apart from God.

Saul ends up rising up in defiance against God and his words.

And this is such a clear reminder. against God and his words.

And this is such a clear reminder

that humility in the beginning

does not guarantee humility in the end. This kind of integrity before God in the beginning,

faithfulness to God in the beginning,

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