In God's eyes, humanity is uniquely created and valued, as expressed in Psalms 139, where David reflects on being fearfully and wonderfully made. As children of God, believers are given a new identity, becoming a chosen people, a royal priesthood, as described in 1 Peter 2. Through faith, they are adopted as heirs of God, as stated in Galatians 4, and become temples of the Holy Spirit, as noted in 1 Corinthians 3. This transformation is made possible when individuals receive Jesus Christ, as John 1 teaches, and are reborn into a new life with a profound sense of purpose and belonging.
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For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.
But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God. No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride. For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.