Live to God

To live to God.

This is not an option, something good Christians "ought to do".
This is the purpose for which we were bought by Jesus. To be slaves of righteousness, slaves of God.

A slave does not choose what he does for the day. He simply obeys. His life is not his own.
Yes, we are to obey as children, out of love; but we should not see our lives as our own.

We can't be saved, and then live as we please as long as it doesn't violate our consciences.
Rather we are saved in order to belong to Jesus, to act like Him, to be a replica of Him in this world.
To be the hands and feet and mouth of Jesus, doing and speaking whatever He would do if He were in my body, in my circumstances.

Our error is in not realizing that we are always someone's slaves - either sin, or Jesus. We are never our own.

Jesus is not a slave emancipator who would buy wretched slaves in order to simply free them from their misery and let them go live free where they wish. Rather he is a good master, who buys slaves owned by a cruel master - so that they may instead serve HIM.

2 Corinthians 5:15, "and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised."

Galatians 2:19-20, "For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."

Romans 6:22,"But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life."