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1 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, 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 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,

does not guarantee integrity before God and faithfulness to God in the end.

And this is a warning to all of us to stay, to remain humble before God,

to live every single day with a posture of humility and integrity before God.

And we should pray for this because we are all prone to pride.

I'm prone to pride.

You are prone to pride.

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