It's one of life's most critical questions and one many leaders fail to answer correctly.

How do we finish well?

King Saul had everything going for, talent, opportunity, God's anointing, and a nation's support. Yet his story

ended in tragedy. So what went wrong? And more importantly, how can we avoid the same pitfalls?

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall examines the sobering lessons from Saul's life, lessons

about maintaining integrity when pressure mounts, staying

humble when we're successful, and taking God seriously when circumstances scream for compromise.

Chuck titled today's message, Saul, the King who refused to bow. The study of people is a fascinating study. I'm engaged in it pretty much every day of my life,

and so are many of you. I'm intrigued with the fact that no two lives are ever identical. Every story is different.

However, I have observed that lives seem to fall into categories. Lifestyles seem to be similar,

much more so than the individual details of the pilgrimages of life.

Let me explain.

Some lives, it seems to me, fit the word picture of an oval speedway,

sort of like the Indianapolis 500.

They seem to be moving along at a very rapid clip.

They're active, they're involved in many things.

They seldom stop, except briefly to gas up, to eat, to sleep, and they're back on the track again.

But what is interesting in studying those lives is that they accomplish very little.

They're quite involved in activities, but when the final tale is told, very little. They're quite involved in activities, but when the final tale is told, very little

was accomplished, though they might have lived many years. And then there's another word picture

that describes lives, and I think it's like a meteor in the sky. Perhaps the protégés of our

lives are like that. Right from the beginning,

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