Did we find ourselves telling our own friends, "I did it for you" when it actually benefits us only. I think we often found ourselves guilty in this thing. We may did it for our friends in expect for something in return or because they did it for us last time.
In the same way an Amalekite servant lied to David, "there was Saul, leaning on his spear... So I stood over him and killed him." It was partly true for Saul was leaning on his spear, but Saul killed himself by his own sword not Amalekite's. He intended to receive a reward from David in his "I did it for you", but he received a pentalty instead. Thus he was executed by one of David's young men.
This Amalekite obviously didn't know David's heart, thus he tricked himself. We may not know what's in our friends' hearts, thus we did everything out of vain, "we did it for you all!" When there is nothing that we can do.
If you want to do it for David or our Christian friends, then do it out of your passionate heart for God. Tell Him, "we did it for You and may You do it for them!"
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