God has chosen that His people would become like His Son. If we would be called His people, we should expect Him to be shaping us, not like the dominant culture, but like His Son. It is our highest calling. Amazingly, it will not destroy our individuality and personality; instead, it will make it. It does not mean we will be stamped out in a cookie cutter mold; instead, mysteriously, we will all be different, but we will all be like Him.
“For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory.” Romans 8:29-30 (NLT)
