Recently I was reading the account of Saul being chosen as the first King of Israel.  Samuel was commissioned by God to go and tell Saul of God’s selection on his life.  I was struck by Saul’s initial response to this divine opportunity.  In 1 Samuel 9:21, Saul said, “Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin?  Why then do you speak like this to me?” Part of Saul’s greatness when he was first called was the humility with which he viewed himself.  There was a raw contriteness he possessed that was in fact the reason why God could push him into the spotlight.  Later, when Saul was disqualifying himself by rash decisions and presumption, the prophet Samuel showed up again in 1 Samuel...