“One does not start his journey motivated by a desire or a goal to become a saint; one becomes a saint unintentionally. Otherwise the journey is for all the wrong reasons, imo.”
Kosta mou, The Church teaches us that our created purpose is theosis. Is it wrong to strive to fulfill one’s created purpose?
“The Son of God has become Son of Man in order to make us...sons of God, raising our race by grace to what He is Himself by nature, granting us birth from above through the grace of the Holy Spirit and leading us straightway to the kingdom of heaven, or rather, granting us this kingdom within us (Luke 17:21), in order that we should not merely be fed by the hope of entering it, but entering into full possession thereof should cry: our ‘life is hid with Christ in God.’ (Col. 3:3).” +Symeon the New Theologian
“...in the visible form of our nature the immortal God described the likeness of His invisible Being, and thus we apprehend eternity. Through prayer we enter into Divine life; and God praying in us is uncreated life permeating us.” Archmandrite Sophrony
Did Moses, did St. Paul, did any of the disciples? Did Theotokos? It seems to me it was not their choice or ambition.