Goals
All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. (Pablo Neruda, late Chilean Nobel Prize winner in literature)
It is no doubt true that people generally want to be known for who they are rather than just what they look like or what their ethnic background is. After all, what we are is more important than what we do, because actions are the result of who we are. A far better goal, however, is to achieve recognition for what we have become rather than what we once were.
For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son. (Romans 8:29)