The most Valuable valuing what is of most value!

Consider how greatly valuable you are in God's estimation. He valued you with such high regard that he created you! He so highly valued your worth that He did not immediately punish you for your sins which would have be justly done. He sent His Son to the cross to die for sins of people whom He considered valuable. He is preparing a place where His own can spend eternity with Him. All this is amazing; the gracious actions of a merciful and loving God. But there something else I would like you to consider.

DICTATE FOUR of SECTION ONE, in Jonathan Edwards' "The End for which God Created the World", is this:

God's moral rectitude consists in his valuing the most valuable, namely, himself.

We like to think God makes much of us. And in some senses, as discussed above, He does. But when we take a broader perspective of the reality of things, we see God makes much of himself. Edwards goes on,

All things else, with regard to worthiness, importance, and excellence, are perfectly as nothing in comparison of him. And therefore, if God has respect to things according to their nature and proportions, he must necessarily have the greatest respect to himself. It would be against the perfection of his nature, his wisdom, holiness, and perfect rectitude, whereby he is disposed to do everything that is fit to be done, to suppose otherwise.

And so we see that God's valuing of beings takes into account their worthiness and excellency. And it is no surprises, with excellency and worthiness taken into consideration, that all beings pale in comparison.

The worthiness of others is as nothing to his; so that to him belongs all possible respect.

To him belongs the whole of the respect that any intelligent being is capable of.

So, Edwards concludes this dictate of reason with the following:

Hence it will follow, that the moral rectitude of the disposition, inclination, or affection of God CHIEFLY consists in a regard to HIMSELF, infinitely above his regard to all other beings; in other words, his holiness consists in this.

From God's Passion for His Glory (John, Piper,. God's passion for His glory living the vision of Jonathan Edwards, with the complete text of The end for which God created the world. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway, 1998. Print.)