Why me?

In talking with non-believers about salvation, and studying salvation, and talking to people about salvation, a couple of questions are raised.

Why are we saved? What is the purpose of our redemption?
-- the answers to these questions have come from an amalgamation of scripture, wise counsel, and sermons from John Piper and Don Carson. To help me write, and help you read, I'm going to try to stay in the past when referring to gospel truths about the person of Christ and His relationship to the Father Jehovah. Feel free to replace any "was/were" with "is/are or will be" --

God does not need us. We are in total need of Him. He doesn't need my praise, my time, my money, my life, my soul. God is the creator of all things and he is not in need of anything from me.

Our salvation is linked only to the Father's love of the Son. In the gospels, Jesus is put into a position of subordination to the Father (John 5:19 ; John 14:28 ; John 6:57). Jesus did only as the Father commanded, and because of that, He lived perfectly. In living a perfect life, Jesus's will aligned perfectly with the will of the Father, and they live in a perfect relationship of love. I'm not saying that the Father and Son were behaving in a "loving" way. The Father and Son were love. They were perfect, and their relationship was perfect.

Jesus wanted us to be reconciled to Himself, as we see in his prayer in John 17. Because of the Father's love for the Son, He answered Jesus's prayer in the way that it lined up with His will (which was also Jesus's will). Therefore, we are saved only because that is a way for the Father to glorify the Son.

Our lives have value. Jesus, fully God, wouldn't give up His life and voluntarily submit Himself to the unmitigated wrath of the Father for garbage. So take heart, Jesus has put a high value on our lives.

Romans 6
We are called to live lives to glorify the Son. It's the only reason we exist, it's the only reason we've been rescued.