Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

When I was in college, I remember seeing the first signs of biker shorts coming on the scene.

And I know that I talked to my friends about how ugly we all thought they were.

Like, you would never see me adapt to the trend. Or when the classic low-rise jeans began to be

replaced with mom jeans with extra high-rise, my high school self could have truly never imagined

that my closet would only be stocked with high-rise jeans,

and my college self would cringe at my dresser full of biker shorts.

Trends are crazy, but they show something inherent about humans.

What we think is in is only in because enough people think

it's in, right? This goes for fashion, but it also goes for societal norms and expectations.

What is normal and expected of people, how to act, what to say, what to wear, the kinds of things

it's okay to admit to believing or doing, is all predicated on enough people thinking it's

okay or cool or good to do, say, believe, or wear those things. Some things constantly

change, like fashion trends.

Already low-rise genes of my childhood are making a comeback.

But other things do seem to be more ingrained, more steadfast throughout centuries.

In today's passage, we'll read an account from thousands of years ago with beliefs about what a king a leader should look like.

That's not far off from our own modern beliefs of leadership, power, and pride.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Let's start by jumping back into the story.

Now, if you listened yesterday, you'll know that David has been attempting to

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