I'll Be What You Want Me to Be October 05, 2008

I love conference weekend.  And not just because it means I don't have Sunday morning meetings in a tie.  One of my favorite things from yesterday was during  Priesthood Session.  I think it was President Eyring who quoted the song "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go."  As he read the line, "I'll be what you want me to be" I gained an insight I hadn't had before, which is likely a testament to the fact that I rarely pay much attention to the words of songs.
Anyway, I've always thought of that line as meaning that I will be whatever the Lord wants me to be: Elder's Quorum President, teacher, counselor, doctor, lawyer, mechanic, whatever.  But it occured to me that at least a part of what it means is that what the Lord really wants me to be is like Him.  That's what I think that lyric means; that I'm prepared to be like Him (or die trying).

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