Saul without Excuse

The Lord had sent Saul to Samuel to be anointed king over Israel. "Tomorrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin," the Lord had said to His servant, "and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people." That the Lord sent Saul to Samuel means that the entire chain of events by which, unbeknown to himself, Saul was led step by step into Samuel's presence, had been sovereignly designed by God in His counsel and forged into actuality by His providence. The...