If you have asked for Saul as your king, that's what you will get.
If you thnk in your heart that you are greater than anyone else around you, the evil spirit of pride and arrogance that was found in Saul is in you too!
Saul was a king elected by the masses but he made a mess of everything and still claimed that he was only doing God's will.
1 Samuel 15:22-23 (New International Version)
22 But Samuel replied:
"Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD ?
To obey is better than sacrifice,
and to heed is better than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,
and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,
he has rejected you as king."
It's easy to say "I am doing God's will" which even the Devil boasts about.It's not in what we claim we are but it is in our actions in the end.It's not in our sacrifices that others can see and reward you here on earth but it is in our personal obedience to God.You may have convinced the whole world that you are but can you convince God whom you can't see with your physical eyes?
Saul could not convince God. You may have convinced men, which is easy to do, but can you convince God with your actions ,thoughts and motives?
The verses below tells us that if your love is not sincere, you sre not of God. You have to convince God that you are obedient.If you only do what you want to do and not do what God tells you to do, then these verses below apply to you.
1 John 3:11-20 (New International Version)
This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous. Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
If we select to do what we feel like doing only but not obey God like Saul, then it is all in our words and our tongues only.Our actions that should speak the truth of Christ in us will not be seen in us.
Saul's sins were deeply rooted in his own assumptions.Assumption was his sin.He assumed that he was the chosen one of God but he was not.Unlike King David, Saul was a jealous and obsessive man.Jealousy recked up his life as a king.He always imagined that he was above King David, when he actually was not.King David was a humble man but Saul was too proud to admit that King David was above him in authority and the calling of God.
