1 Samuel 8: A Change of Heart

“After that you will go to Gibeah of God, where there is a Philistine outpost. As you approach the town, you will meet a procession of prophets coming down from the high place with lyres, tambourines, flutes and harps being played before them, and they will be prophesying. The Spirit of the LORD will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person. Once these signs are fulfilled, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God is with you.
“Go down ahead of me to Gilgal. I will surely come down to you to sacrifice burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, but you must wait seven days until I come to you and tell you what you are to do.”
As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all these signs were fulfilled that day.-1 Sam. 10:5-9 NIV

It is only the spirit of God that can change a man's heart; that can take him from an unassuming person, from the, as Saul would put it, "from the smallest tribe in Israel" to being a strong courageous king.   We have a tendency to look on the outward appearance.  We look for confidence, for strength, for appearance, but that is never what God has used to build his kingdom.  I fear that we women are the most gullible.  We run after those with charisma, the pretty face, the lying tongue.  Is it any wonder that so many of the televangelists are supported primarily by widows and lonely women who think if they send their offering to the current god of the airwaves, they will be rewarded?  Both Saul and later David, his successor,  were not what one would look for as the leader of God's people.  When Saul was to be anointed, he was so fearful that he hid among the stuff.   And David was the least of his brothers when one considered who would be fit to be king.  It was God that changed Saul's heart, it was the spirit of God that rested on David.  We need to follow the the ones with the heart, not the ones with the appearance.