---
title: 'Edward D. Griffin on What It Means to Live to God'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-05-04
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-edward-d-griffin-on-what-it-means-to-live-to-god
---

# Edward D. Griffin on What It Means to Live to God

“To live to God is to regard his will as the rule and ground of our conduct, and his glory as our supreme object; not merely one day in a week, or two seasons in a day, but in our general course, to act from a reference to his authority; to choose our calling, to pursue our business, to frame our habits, to regulate our actions from hour to hour, from a regard to his will and honor; to feel and act as those who are not at liberty to live to themselves, but have their work daily assigned them by a heavenly Master; to move about under a sense that we are not our own, — not our own masters, not our own proprietors, not at our own disposal, — that our time, talents, influence, property, and all that we are and have are God’s; to hold every thing in readiness to use for him or resign to him as he shall direct; to be submissive under afflictions, and willing to be at his disposal in all our trials; to be ready to deny ourselves for him in every way which his word or providence may point out; to desire life chiefly that we may serve him; to make him the centre in which all the lines of our life shall meet; to make it the business of our lives to please him and not ourselves, labouring ‘that whether present or absent we may be accepted of him,’ ‘and whatsoever’ we ‘do in word or deed,’ to ‘do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.’” — [**Edward D. Griffin**](/topics/compilations), *Living to God: A Sermon, Preached June* 16, 1816, *at the Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New*-*York* (1816), p. 9