- written in Jerusalem, Israel by Derek Prince (1915–2003)
For more than fifty years, I have tried to help people with innumerable different problems in their lives. Eventually, I have come to a surprising conclusion: our basic problem as human beings is that we do not realize how valuable we are.
Consequently, we make the most tragic mistakes. We are like a person who is legally heir to a vast fortune, but we sell off our entire inheritance for something incomparably less valuable: a night of sex, a joint of marijuana, a drunken party, a crooked financial scheme.
Or we may value ourselves a little higher, perhaps seeking some prestigious position in politics or the entertainment world, or even some high ecclesiastical office. Yet for all its prestige, it does not compare with the value of our inheritance—which we give in exchange for it.
If we are to appreciate our real value as human beings, we must consider the unique and wonderful way in which Adam—the ancestor of our race—was created.
Do You Realize How Valuable You Are?
The Miracle of Adam’s Creation
In John 1:1–2 we discover that the actual agent in creation was not God the Father, but the divine Word, who was with God from eternity—the Person who was later manifested in human history as Jesus of Nazareth: “All things were made through Him [the
Word], and without Him nothing was made that was made.”
Creation, as a whole, was brought about by the spoken word of God: “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God.”1 “For He spoke and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.”2 But the creation of Adam, as described in Genesis 2:7, was uniquely different: “And the Lord God formed [molded] man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being [literally, a living soul].”
