text: God created us to be ourselves.  What we are, the choices we make, the ways we grow and change and experience life are all part of who we are.  God doesn't want robots.  The thing that he does want is for us to know Him.  When we know Him, we will make different types of choices, grow and change in different ways, and experience life differently.  And it will all be in the context of who we are in relation to who God is.