In our part of the world, the gold standard of human worth is beauty. If you are exceptionally attractive, you will garner favorable attention. Even in, perhaps especially in, elementary school, popularity is influenced by physical attractiveness. For children, athletic ability and intelligence also rank pretty high, and having a special talent like playing an instrument well can help you feel like you matter. As we grow older, feelingings of worth seems to follow professional success. You can get by being unattractive if you are a world changer.
Most of us acknowledge that such attributes are superficial, yet we tend to envy those who have them. I know a guy who has been described as "blindingly handsome." He's in his thirties, about six four, has an athletic build, a PhD and he's a kickin' Bible teacher. Plus, thank God, he has some beautiful humility. Frankly, not many men want to be in his wake when he walks into a room. Heads turn and they are not looking at you. They are looking at him. Some of my friends and I have discussed in jest our "hatred" of him. We all know there's a bit of envy being exposed. Ours.
What if you can't seem to shake the idea that by comparison, you are small, insignificant and of little value? You are probably infected with a virus Paul warns against (Romans 12:2), the virus of stinkin' thinkin.' Being warned is good, but it doesn't free you from unwholesome values. Being transformed does. Paul tells us (in the same text) that transformation takes place when our minds are renewed. This renewal is a process and it happens as we allow God's Spirit and His Word to have at us in solitude and community. As this transformation takes place, we realize there are no little people, just people, each with inestimable worth.
Feeling small affords you the opportunity, and perhaps the motivation, to lean into this and to find your value in being Abba's child. As you are baptized in His love afresh and anew, you will never again feel small.