This is the story of me...who always want to hide behind the scene...scared and reluctant...never had the confidence...
The young man became his team's captain. The professional sports squad was now led by a mild-mannered kid who barely needed to shave. His first press conference was underwhelming. He kept deferring to the coach and to his teammates and mumbled clichés about just trying to do his job. The team performed poorly that season. And by the end of it the young captain had been traded. He didn't grasp that he'd been entrusted with the authority to lead, or maybe he never believed he could.
Due to his failures, Saul was small in his own eyes, which is funny thing to say about a guy who's described as being tall. He was literally head and shoulders above the rest. And yet that wasn't how he saw himself. In fact, his actions in the chapter show him trying to win the approval of the people. He hadn't fully grasped that God - not people, had chosen him and given him a mission.
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