God has intentionally set up an extremely imbalanced system in which He could easily get along without us but we could never get along without Him. This exalts Him as the glorious, essential One and reduces us to insignificant, needy ones. By ourselves we have no value, because we are nothing apart from God. He completely defines us, and He declares our worth is based on nothing but His own personal preferences. It turns out that God declares us to be extremely valuable creatures who He likes to refer to as His dearly loved children. This assessment of us is completely arbitrary—it is not based on anything other than God’s personal choice and it cannot be proven apart from His declaration. We are valuable because God says we are, and He is the final standard.