1 Samuel, 19-20

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/1_sam/19
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/1_sam/20

Isn't it amazing how man can so easily forget. One moment a nobody and the next a somebody who has been a somebody for all his life and will always be. All powerful, all knowing, and everyone bows to your will. That seems to be the only way to explain why Saul succumbs to the passion of seeking to kill David. Even when he feels a good dose of the Spirit and prophesies among the prophets, he is quick to forget the Lord his God. So similar is his character at this point to Laman and Lemuel who also witness many mighty miracles and yet find all the reasons not to believe.

And David, this innocent boy who seeks only to please his God, spends so much of his life fleeing from a man, the King no less, that when the threat is no more, it seems David lets his guard down and he himself succumbs to the flesh, forgetting for a brief and consequential season that it is God who allowed him to be king and not his right to act as God. Indeed, it does seem that the responsibilities of leadership require humility, every wit, in order for a leader to remain a good leader and remain in good standing with God.