Breaking news. This just in. The president has lost the support of the people and is to be replaced. It was announced that rather than follow the order of succession, the chief justice would conduct a search for a new president. 

Update! the chief justice has interviewed several of the people on the presidential line of succession list. None were found to be what the people needed and so no one was chosen. One last possibility was looked at. The chief justice examined the newest and youngest intern in the government. Guess who was to be the new president.

This story sounds a little far-fetched, doesn’t it? But that might be how this Sunday’s Old Testament reading might have gone down if it had been written now. Saul has lost favor with God, who instructs the prophet Samuel to find and annoint the new king. It wasn’t the new and young intern, but rather some young kid out tending the sheep.

In guiding Samuel, God told him “The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” How have you been looking at other people?