Do You Know How Valuable You Are?

Part 2: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Psalm 139:13-14

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.” Jeremiah 1:5

Before You Took a Breath

I want to take you somewhere quiet for a minute. Away from the noise. Away from the opinions. Away from every voice that ever told you what you were or weren’t worth. I want to take you back to before you were born. Not to your childhood. Not to the hospital. Before ALL of it. Before your first breath, your first cry, your first heartbeat. Back to when you were just a thought in the mind of God.

Because that’s where your value started. Not in what you’ve done. Not in what people think of you. Not in your résumé or your failures or your bank account. It started in the heart of a God who decided — before anything else existed — that you were worth making. David wrote about this. And what he wrote should change the way you see yourself for the rest of your life.

The Psalm That Changes Everything

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it well” (Psalm 139:13-14). Let those words LAND.

You were FORMED. Not randomly assembled. Not tossed together by accident. Formed. The Hebrew word there suggests careful, deliberate craftsmanship — like a potter with his hands deep in the clay, shaping every curve with intention. And KNITTED TOGETHER. That’s tender language. That’s a grandmother with yarn in her lap, every stitch purposeful, every row planned. That’s how God made you. Stitch by stitch. Detail by detail. Nothing overlooked. Nothing wasted.

Fearfully and wonderfully made. Not adequately made. Not barely made. FEARFULLY — with awe. WONDERFULLY — with marvel. God looked at what He was creating in you, and it inspired wonder. In HIM. Let me tell you, you inspire wonder in God. Let that sit for a minute before you argue with it.

The Book

David doesn’t stop there. He goes further, and it gets even more personal: “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them” (Psalm 139:16).

God has a book. And your days are in it. Not in pencil. Not as a rough draft. WRITTEN. Before you lived a single one of them, God saw them all. He saw your best days and your worst days. He saw the days you’d feel on top of the world and the days you’d barely get out of bed. He saw every scar, every setback, every stumble. And He STILL wrote you into the story.

That means the day someone called you worthless — God already knew about it. And He didn’t cross your name out of the book. The day you failed so badly you wanted to disappear — He’d already seen it. And He still said, “This one is MINE.” The prophet Jeremiah heard God say something that echoes this same truth: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you” (Jeremiah 1:5). BEFORE. That word keeps showing up. Before you could do anything to earn it or ruin it, God already knew you. Already chose you. Already set you apart. Your value was established before you drew your first breath. Which means NOTHING that has happened since can take it away.

The Voices That Lied

But someone told you different, didn’t they? Maybe it was a parent who should have protected you but tore you down instead. Maybe it was a coach, a teacher, a kid on the playground, a stranger on the internet. Maybe it was a whole system — a culture that measured your worth by what you produced, what you looked like, or what you could offer. And after you hear those voices long enough, they don’t sound like lies anymore. They sound like truth. They move from your ears to your bones, and you start to live as if they’re right.

But let me tell you something. Those voices didn’t make you. They don’t get to define you. The One who KNITTED you together gets that right. And He’s already spoken. He said FEARFULLY. He said WONDERFULLY. He said He knew you BEFORE. He wrote your days in His book. And He paid for you with the blood of His only Son — “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). WHILE WE WERE STILL SINNERS. Not after we got our act together. Not after we earned it. While. In the middle of the mess. That’s when He came. That’s what you’re WORTH.

Your Soul Knows It Well

Go back to David’s psalm for a moment. After he says, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made,” he adds something quiet and important: “Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it well.” My soul KNOWS it well. David isn’t just stating a fact. He’s saying his soul has SETTLED into this truth. It’s not just head knowledge. It’s not a bumper sticker. It’s something deep — deeper than the lies, deeper than the wounds, deeper than the voices.

And that’s where I want you to get to. Not just knowing in your mind that God made you with purpose. But knowing it in your SOUL. Letting it sink past the scar tissue and into the bedrock of who you are. You are fearfully made. You are wonderfully made. God wrote your days in His book before you lived a single one. He knows your name. He numbered the hairs on your head. And He paid for you with the blood of His only Son.

Do you know how valuable you are? You’re starting to. And the more you drink from the right river, the deeper that knowing will go.

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A Moment Before You Go

Lord, I’ve let other voices tell me what I’m worth for too long. Today I’m choosing to believe the One who made me. You say I’m fearfully and wonderfully made. You wrote my days in Your book. You knew me before I was born. Help me live like someone who believes that. In Jesus’ name, amen.

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A.W. Tozer wrote, “God formed us for His pleasure, and so formed us that we, as well as He, can in divine communion enjoy the sweet and mysterious mingling of kindred personalities.” You weren’t made to be tolerated by God. You were made to be enjoyed by Him.

Max Lucado wrote, “You are valuable just because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are.” That’s not wishful thinking. That’s the Gospel. God proved it on a cross.

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Next: Do You Know How Valuable You Are? — Part 3: The Cave

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