You missed the whole idea of an eved. The way I was brought up is that there are two types of servants, a servant who works to get paid, this is the more common servant. and then there is the true eved, the servant who is not serving for the schar but is serving because that is the kings rotzon. the eibershters rotzon is that we complete life and he gave us the guide to completing life, the torah. We should not keep torah for gan eden but rather because that is the eibershters rotzon. we are servants who are serving the eibershter because that is his rotzon and he is or melech. (I don’t know the details) there was once a story of the baal shem tov when a bas kol said that the baal shem tov is not going to receive olam haba. when people saw the baal shem tov they asked him why he was not only not frustrated or upset by the bas kol but on the contrary he was in a joyous mood. the baal shem tov responded “until now maybe i was just serving the eibershter for the sake of Olam Haba, but now that i wont receive olam haba I can now serve the eibershter lishmo and not for the schar of olam haba.
