Serving God for Nothing?

In a rather remarkable conversation between God and Satan, the Accuser posed a question regarding Job's faithfulness: "Does Job fear God for nothing?" (Job 1:9).  In other words, "Doesn't Job serve you because protect and bless him?"  Which begs the question, "Would he serve you for nothing?"

For reasons more than the test itself that would require much more time and space than I have today, God allowed Satan to put Job to the test.  Satan took everything from Job in such a way that everyone on the scene attributed the loss to God.  Surely, Satan thought, that Job would lose his respect for God and curse Him.

But Satan couldn't have been more wrong: "“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised" (Job 1:21).  What Satan discovered was that Job wasn't in it for the money, so to speak.  Job would serve God for nothing.

Job had more testing to come and his "feet of clay" would be exposed for which he would humble himself before God acknowleding his shortfall and God's righteousness.  For while Jobe lived a blameless life, he was not perfect.  He always tried to do the right thing and tried to make it right when he failed, but he had failures in his life and "righteous pride" was one of them.

Nonetheless, Job's life sets a standard for us: Will we serve God for nothing?  When everything goes wrong, will we still do right?  When we get nothing in return, will we still give what we can?  When we cannot understand why God would bring us to a particular point in life, will we still follow Him? 

Max Lucado once posed a question that I think is very appropriate just here: "If all God did was save me, wouldn't that be enough?"  If nothing worked out in this life as we expected, wouldn't God who calls us to follow Him to Glory still be worth serving?  Jus' Askn.