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“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody
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And he had a son, whose name [was] Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and [there was] not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward [he was] higher than any of the people.
1 Samuel 9:2 — KJV
Saul. Heb. sha’ul, from the verb sha’al, “to ask for,” “to request.” One of the dukes of Edom also bore the name Saul (Gen. 36:37, 38). If Kish be thought of as “the bow of God” (see on 1 Sam. 9:1), for delivering Israel from the hand of the surrounding nations, there must also be arrows for His quiver. Zechariah speaks of Judah as God’s bow and Ephraim as is arrows; Zion is “as the sword of a mighty man” (Zech. 9:13).
Towering head and shoulders above his fellows, Saul had a regal bearing that won him the favor of the multitude. What better lesson could God give those who wished to be like the nations about them than to select for them a king who should be judged after man’s standards? Thus the disciples of Jesus looked to Judas as a leader, little knowing the darkness that shrouded his heart. Is it not time for God’s people today to ask for that heavenly eyesalve that will enable them ever to discern clearly the qualifications of true leadership?
By SdaBc
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