What kind of people will we forever be?

A quote passed on by my Aunt Lydia Munn. From Dallas Willard's book Hearing God:

“We are hindered in our progress toward becoming spiritually competent people by how easily we can explain away the movements of God toward us. They go meekly, without much protest. Of course his day will come, but for now he cooperates with the desires and inclinations that make up our character, as we are gradually becoming the kind of people we will forever be. That should send a chill down our spine. God wants to be wanted, to be wanted enough that we are ready, predisposed, to find him present with us.”

Lord may my life not be full of your movements toward me that have passed my by, and let the choices of my heart be gradually moving me toward the person you would want me to be, not living in a fiction that "I'll change when I grow up..." BTW - someday I need to post a reflection on Willard himself, someone whose combination of professional philosopher and deep and reflective spiritual guide I find very compelling.