or...

Here's another possible and completely opposite idea about the verse chunk in the previous post. Again, I have no idea. But.

So I believe that at the time, God's people had been delivered from Egypt for a while and had been hanging out in the wilderness with God, but were starting to feel uncomfortable with it (because let's face it, doing what God wants isn't always comfortable, am I right? always great though.) They were asking for a king, because it's what they were used to. So maybe, maybe... those verses mean that if you are looking for a leader that is of the world, you are going to end up with one that is definitely not the best equipped. Like, the trees were desperate for a ruler, so when the fruit-bearing, beautiful (perhaps Godly?) trees wouldn't do it, they stooped to asking the thornbush.

Like I said, completely opposite. Funny how you can revisit something a couple days later and get a completely different idea from it.