What Is The Reason Why You Want To Serve God?

Why do you fear or serve God? Do you serve Him for nothing? Service is an important aspect of a believing Christian's walk with God. The scriptures teach us to serve God, but the question is, "what is the main motive behind the service?" The true answer to this question determines how God will respond to your service.

Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?" So Satan answered the Lord and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing? Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!" And the Lord said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person." - Job 1:8-12 (NKJV)

The challenge

There are great blessings attached to service unto God. For instance, Exodus 23:25-26 promise you provision, sickness-free life, fruitfulness and longevity when you serve God. However, many Christians have zeroed down to merely serving God for things. When they pray, teach or preach the word of God, praise and worship God, they are only concerned for what they will get at the end of it. It has become a show to God.

Unfortunately, when they don't quickly get these things, they switch off, saying, "this thing doesn't work"- referring to Christianity. They call the scriptures lies, words written just to deceive people. They turn around and tell people not to believe in that "Jesus Christ stuff". Yet, they were the ones who got it all wrong from the beginning and fell into the devil's deception.

Case Study

Let's consider Job's story. God's testimony of him amazes me any time I read it. I strongly desire that one day the Lord will testify of me as He did Job.

In Job 1:6-12, when the sons of God gathered, the enemy also gathered. God asked where he was coming from. And he answered, "From going to and fro on the earth". Then God asked him if he had considered His servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth; that he is a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and hates evil. The devil answered God that Job does not fear God for nothing, that God had given him all round protection and prosperity. He asked God to allow him to strike Job and He will discover that Job would curse God. And God allowed him but warned him not to touch Job.

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