Saul's pride begins to rear its ugly head. His son Jonathan attacks a Philistine outpost. Saul claims the victory as his own.

Then, to his credit, Saul prepares burnt offferings to the Lord - a good thing, right? Sure, it was a good thing, but... Saul gets impatient waiting on Samuel to arrive to offer up the burnt offering to God and he does it himself - not a good thing. What Saul did was in a good way, but not God's way...big difference! Many times we as a church and as individual Believers, do good things, but not always Godly things. Again, there's a big difference!  When Samuel says that Saul has acted foolishly, he was in effect saying the Saul acted as a non-believer.

After this act God removed the kingdom from the hand of Saul and gave it to "a man after his own heart."  It has been made clear that God has already chosen Saul's replacement.

Saul's son Jonathan again comes forward, stepping out in faith to attack the Philistines. God gave the Philistines into the Israelites' hand.  Here is an interesting modern day connection to this biblical story.
"During World War I, British forces under the command of General Allenby were to face the Turks at the same location. Major Vivian Gilbert of the British army relates the story of an unnamed brigade major who was reading his bible while contemplating the situation against the Ottoman forces. The brigade major remembered a town by the name of Michmash mentioned somewhere in the Bible. He found the verses, and discovered that there was supposedly a secret path around the town. He woke the brigadier general, and they found that the path still existed and was very lightly guarded. The British forces used this path to outmanoeuver the Ottomans, and so took the town."

Jonathan stepped out on faith. So, how is it with us as Believers, do we step out in faith, and do God's will even if it seems as if we are going against impossible circumstances?