I think Saul's story is really a sad case. From being a low self-confidence guy, God made Saul a great man, a warrior-king. But Saul totally forgot about God and decided to his own thing. God gave Saul a mission that is to destroy the Amalekites completely but Saul saw all the good things that belongs to these enemies and decided to keep them for himself despite God's order to destroy them. Saul got greedy and even justified that he was doing it for God. It's like saying "Aiya God, why so angry with me...I din't do anything wrong...I'm doing this all because of you...aren't I giving the best things that I won from the war for you as sacrifices..."
I am reminded that it is not hard to be a 'Saul' too... I too can choose to disobey God and defend my actions because of my own self interest. If God give me great success I too can become proud, greedy and self-centred and forget Him. Choy...choy...I sure hope not...
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