Though you are a worm by John
Macduff Do not be afraid worm Jacob. I will help you says the
Lord your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel Isaiah 41 14 Worm Jacob
what weakness? insignificance unworthiness Yet
it is this helpless groveling worm which occupies the thoughts
of God receives His 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, 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, Covenant
One, and He tells you that the thoughts which He thinks towards
you are thoughts of peace and not of evil. Mark His message
of comfort. Do not be afraid. Mark His promise,
I will help you. The guarantee which He gives
for the fulfillment of that promise is His own great name. Says the
Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. I myself will
help you. Yes, poor weak trembling one,
Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, in other words,
omnipotence, love, and righteousness are all embarked on your side
and pledged for your salvation. He loves to draw near to his
people In the extremity of their weakness. He will not break the
bruised reed, He will not quench the smoking flax. Man would do
so. Man would often crush The writhing
worm under his feet, Bid the trembling penitent away. but
he whose thoughts are not as our thoughts says, neither do
I condemn you. Be it mine to go in the strength
of the Lord God, I 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. But happy are those who have
the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the LORD their
God.