Are you who you wanna be?

So last night i sat, overlooking Chattanooga, with two of my favorite people. We started talking about all sorts of things we had been thinking about over break and things we were learning and realizing at the moment. I told them how i had heard the song the day before by Switchfoot that says, "This is your life are, are you who you wanna be?" We talked about this for a long time and i shared with them about how when i had heard the song it got me to start thinking. I thought about how this life is all we get, we are simply a vapor here today and gone tomorrow, so we better start living the way we wanna live and be the people we've been striving to be. As we talked about this, Lydia said something that really got me to thinking even more. She said, "You know, that song has one flaw in it, this is all we get, but we shouldn't be asking 'is this who WE wanna be' but we should be asking ourselves 'is this who GOD wants me to be?'" As soon as she said that i realized i have been living in such a way that is focused on living how i want to portray myself. Not that I'm living a horribly sinful life where I'm committing murders and robbing banks, but I'm living in a way that is pleasing to me, not pleasing to God. So as this transition into college life is a recurring theme, I have a really neat opportunity to mold myself to how God sees me and start living a life that is striving towards who he wants me to be. Instead of living a life where i am constantly striving towards who I want to be.