1 Samuel 9:3

The asses. On what apparently inconsequential incidents does the destiny of races and peoples often depend! Saul set out to find the lost asses (Heb., “she-asses”), little dreaming that the day had come for him to assume the responsibilities of a kingdom! Future events proved him ill-prepared for the task to which God called him. Few people are prepared for such leadership. Moses was not fully prepared for leadership even when he met God at the burning bush. But the encouraging aspect of a call to leadership is that God takes men as He finds them, with the purpose of training them as they work. All that God expects of any man is “to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly” with his God (Micah 6:8); literally, “to humble thyself to walk with God.” Peter did this; Judas did not. David did so; Saul refused. It is not that God cannot train man, but rather that man will not humble his heart before God so that in due time God may exalt him (1 Peter 5:6).