Our worth… based on what?

What makes us valuable and of tremendous worth to God is not the skills we have acquired and all we can do with them but who we are. 

It is because of who we are that we have the ability to acquire skills. It is who God has made us to be and to what end we were made (to say it another way, if for some reason we lose some or all of those skills are we now worthless? Not in God's economy!).

And who are we exactly? 

We are like God, in his image. And because we are we can participate in the very life of God the same way God participates in his own life, a way no other creature can. (for more on this click here)

Because God is the greatest and most valuable being of all, our ability to participate in his life has a direct bearing on our value. It is the real basis for our true worth. Our "doing" doesn't cause God to value us, our being does i.e. who we are, who he has made us to be.

This is not to say our doing has no value. But it only has value to the extent our doing brings honor (points others) to God, the most valuable of all beings. 

And this can only occur once our offenses are cleared (removed) and God's Spirit comes to reside in us and move us to obey God.

For a more in-depth discussion click here and here.