As you look ahead at your life, you will face a lot of questions about yourself—what you want to be and do, and what you envision for your future. These are important questions that are inborn to help you develop a plan for your life. At the same time, those ideas and hopes for the future can sometimes bring a measure of worry and concern, and there may also be influences from other people about what they think you should do or be. It’s important, though, to not spend so much time trying to figure out what sort of person you should be that you forget the most important thing—being the person that God created you to be. And what is that?

God doesn’t have grandiose demands for what He wants you to be; in fact, God’s expectations are pretty simple: “Do what is right to other people. Love being kind to others. And live humbly, trusting your God.”¹ You may think you need to undergo character and lifestyle changes in order to become who you need to be, but the underlying goals are very simple—kindness, humility, and trust.