Does God actually value us? If so, why? After all, aren't we all a broken mess? Yet he values us never the less.
So how does this work? Why would He value us? Because He values Himself first. What does this have to do with us? He made us like Him, with the capacity to appreciate and enjoy who He is, in the same way, the Father, Son and Spirit enjoy each other. Because we are in His image, this enables us to value Him. He values that we are able to value Him.
In addition, He delights in multiplying and spreading his value/glory to others through us. This also makes us valuable.
So how does this work? Why would He value us? Because He values Himself first. What does this have to do with us? He made us like Him, with the capacity to appreciate and enjoy who He is, in the same way, the Father, Son and Spirit enjoy each other. Because we are in His image, this enables us to value Him. He values that we are able to value Him.
In addition, He delights in multiplying and spreading his value/glory to others through us. This also makes us valuable.
How is this possible?
Next to Him, we have the capacity to display his glory in a way no other being or thing can.
In Psalm 8:3-5 we are told...
(Elohim) and crowned him with glory and honor.3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the *heavenly beings
Throughout scripture, we are told God is Crowned with glory and honor, yet in this Psalm we are told we too are crowned with glory and honor. Heavenly beings is Elohim in the orginal Hebrew. This is a name used for God that is always plural. It is the same word used in the verse, "Gen 1:27 So God (Elohim) created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." Of all creation, we have these characteristics -- glory and honor -- in common with God and are like him in this way. Nothing else does.
Because God values himself, he values our being able to value him. Because he is glorious, He designed us to appreciate and experience his glory.
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Psalm 8:5
*(ASV) For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor.
(CEV) You made us a little lower than you yourself, and you have crowned us with glory and honor.
(ERV) But you made them almost like gods and crowned them with glory and honor.
(GNB) Yet you made them inferior only to yourself; you crowned them with glory and honor.
(ISV) You made him a little less than divine, but you crowned him with glory and honor.
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Psalm 8:5
*(ASV) For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor.
(CEV) You made us a little lower than you yourself, and you have crowned us with glory and honor.
(ERV) But you made them almost like gods and crowned them with glory and honor.
(GNB) Yet you made them inferior only to yourself; you crowned them with glory and honor.
(ISV) You made him a little less than divine, but you crowned him with glory and honor.
