Jonathan Edwards’s Consecration

Jonathan Edwards is one of America’s most influential philosophers and theologians. Edwards wrote dozens of books, sparked the First Great Awakening, and was influential in the lives of hundreds of ministers, missionaries, and politicians. According to Mark Batterson, his legacy traces back to one defining moment. On January 12, 1723, he consecrated himself to God and wrote it in his diary:

I made a solemn dedication of myself to God, and wrote it down; giving up myself, and all that I had to God; to be for the future, in no respect, my own; to act as one that had no right…