JUST THINKING
Many a time we make a personal assessment of our careers, walk with God and so on with our own understanding. Your assessment concerning God's assignment for you is not as important as HIS assessment of it. He is the one that sends/sent you on a mission and He is the one who will say well done my faithful servant.
Saul said to Samuel that he had performed the commandments or assignment God had given him but God said he didn't. So, who is the Liar? Is it God or Saul?
1 Samuel 15:11 - 13 says,
“I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night. So when Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul, it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul went to Carmel, and indeed, he set up a monument for himself; and he has gone on around, passed by, and gone down to Gilgal.” Then Samuel went to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed are you of the Lord ! I have performed the commandment of the Lord .”
We tend to judge and rate ourselves based on our obvious achievements but God's ways of assessing people are different. He does not look at the physical and the obvious to make a judgement.
King Saul disobeyed God but he told Samuel that he had obeyed God. He pointed at the obvious and the things he had brought back which were against the commandments God had given him. God had said to him to utterly destroy everything they had and everyone (The Amalekites) including the people, animals and properties. But he didn't carry the commandment accordingly. Instead, he kept the good things, animals and even Agag the King of the Amalekites. This shows that partial obedience is not obedience.
With the way you are going about the assignment God has given you, what will be His judgement about it when you report back to Him?

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