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disconnected leadership

1 Samuel 15:32-35 (JDV)

1 Samuel 15:32 Samuel said, “Bring me King Agag of Amalek.” Agag came to him trembling, for he thought, “Certainly the bitterness of death has come.”
1 Samuel 15:33 Samuel declared: As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women. Then he hacked Agag to pieces before Yahveh at Gilgal.
1 Samuel 15:34 Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.
1 Samuel 15:35 Until the day of his death, Samuel never saw Saul again. Samuel mourned for Saul, and Yahveh regretted he had made Saul king over Israel.

disconnected leadership

Agag died that day at the hands of God’s prophet, who did what the king should have done. Saul did not die that day, but he might as well have. He lost the support and connection with bothy the prophet and God himself. What a terrible thing to have a position of leadership without the empowerment that comes from God and his people.