Where did you come from? How did you get here? Do you know who you are? Do you know why you were created? Who am I? Am I only a higher developmental stage of a baboon or an advanced degree of pond scum? Be careful, if you’re wrong about this you’ll be wrong on everything! Like a math equation—if the first number is wrong, everything following will be as well.

To answer those questions, we must begin where the Bible begins, Then God said, “Let us make man in our own image” (Gen. 1:26). That decision, made in the beginning, was that man would be different from the animal world; all men would bear the image and likeness of God, their creator. He would design each one, personally. His unique creation—for His glory (Is.43:7).

God puts an exclamation point here so that we see there is something very special about us. Yet there is a tendency in each of us to resist the truth that we are created, even to the point of suppressing the clear evidence (Rom. 1:18-20). Why do we do this? Because something is broken inside and we struggle with the tendency to run from God and go our own way. It doesn’t make sense. God has built inside each of us an instinctive longing for Him. But in the darkness, and in our brokenness we often push this feeling down, and listen to the evil one instead, who tells us we have little worth, or we’re not what we should be.

God said through the apostle Paul, “He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live” (Acts 17:26), and, “In him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). Sounds like we’re more than pond scum! Further, God declared through the apostle Peter, “You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light” (I Peter 2:9).

You are uniquely created by God and for God. You were placed in the very house in which you live. Every intricate detail of your life was planned by a loving God (Phil. 2:13), and you have the unique privilege of praising and glorifying the God who took such pains to knit you together so specifically in your mother’s womb (Ps. 139:13). Wow! It doesn’t get any better than that, my friend. The end all of our existence is to bring glory to our Creator!

King David understood and reveled in this knowledge when he penned, “For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well” (Ps. 139:13-14).

Now . . . Who Do You Think You Are?