A WORD ABOUT WORMS

In 1707 Isaac Watts published a hymn entitled, “Godly Sorrow Arising From The Sufferings of Christ. The first stanza reads:

Alas! And did my Savior Bleed,

And did my Sovereign die?

Would He devote that sacred head

For such a worm as I?

Our “enlightened” religious generation has changed the original to read "sinner such as I", being confident that we are not worms.

But here is an encouraging word about worms such as we are. A worm is the only creature in God’s world which he turns into a butterfly. Perhaps Watts knew that the transformation wrought in the human heart by the grace of God whereby the old man dies and the new man in Christ is born, finds a parallel in nature whereby a worm dies that a butterfly may be born!