We spend so much time in our lives (and culture) focusing on what we want to DO with our lives. This is a prevailing question young people ask themselves as they navigate their way through college and their twenties (and even thirties and forties and fifties too:) It is interesting though, that who we are to our core so significantly impacts what we do, how we do it, what we say, how good or bad our relationships are, and how we live out our Christian faith and life on the whole. Who we are matters so much more at the end of the day than what we do, because who we are is the stuff of eternal value when we stand before King Jesus one day. So why don't we spend more time truly caring about and thinking about who we want to be and what the true condition of our heart is despite what others see or think of us? Someone once asked me to do an exercise where I was to write down the answer to two questions: Who do you want to be? And what is at stake if you are not each of those things? After going through this exercise, it was quite illuminating all that was at stake if I did not possess each character quality that I genuinely desired to be. The following was one example, and I want to challenge you to do this exercise too!
