I would add, that to be only who God wants you to be...which is basically the same thing...who He designed you to be is who you will always be meant to be, and to live a life that doesn't follow His plan for you is to live a life that isn't meant to be lived by you; to live any life but that which God has designed for you from the beginning is to live in rebellion, and can explain many of our thought disorders and even some physical consequences...you will be restless and have no lasting peace until you embrace the calling God has written into your identity: to know Him and follow Him and use the gifts and talents He has blessed you with for Him, serving and walking in truth. The world does not want us to know peace- truly- for as long as it can keep us restless it can play on our search for stability and fulfillment, offering us temporary fixes that look like peace and subdue us for a moment, but eventually destroy us as it subtly conforms us.
To be yourself- your God-designed self- in a world that would lure you to be a product of the culture, this indeed is one of the greatest battles we face as we follow Jesus.
"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."
-John 16:33-
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