As soon as David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.

1 Samuel 24:16 English Standard Version

Each time I read Saul's story, how he rose out of obscurity into God's favor and quickly out of it and into a painful and inglorious decline, I am struck by how God "interferes" with Saul's and David's life in very similar ways and yet how differently that affects them.

With David it is a blessing and keeping him on the stright and narrow, a guide, a refuge, a source of strength.

With Saul it's like he's a fish and God keeps telling him to walk on land. God's interference only seems to drive him further out of control. In the end, unlike David's, Saul's heart is entirely out of sync with God. Saul never truly loved God nor cared for Him.