WORM JACOB By John Macduff Isaiah
41-14 DO NOT BE AFRAID, O WORM JACOB, O LITTLE ISRAEL, FOR I
MYSELF WILL HELP YOU, declares the LORD, your Redeemer, the
Holy One of Israel. WORM JACOB What weakness! What insignificance! What unworthiness! Yet it is this helpless, grovelling
worm that receives God's sympathy and has the assurance of His
almighty aid. Believer, beaten down it may
be with a great fight of affliction or trembling under a sense of
your unworthiness and guilt. mourning, the coldness of your
faith, the lukewarmness of your love, the frequency of your backslidings,
the fitfulness of your best purposes, and the feebleness of your best
services, your God draws near to you. He remembers that though you
are a worm, still you are worm Jacob, his own beloved one. I myself will help you. Yes,
poor, weak, trembling one, the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy
One, loves to draw near to His redeemed people in the extremity
of their weakness. I myself will help you. Is enough
for all the emergencies of the present and all the contingencies
of an untried, and it may be a dark future. My help comes
from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. Psalm 121.2