The Worm and Adam
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. (Psalm 22:6)
The worm has no power of it’s own to become a butterfly. It is the power of God that transforms it to such beauty. And when we leave this earth, we leave the worm of sin behind to decay, and to turn to dust, but the body of the celestial will be a body of glory by the power of God. Adam lost more than life that day in the garden; he lost his glory for sin, and became a worm of sin. He was created in the image of God, and gave it up for the image of a worm when compared to what he was. He was now but dust, once more, ‘the soul that sinneth must die,’ and so Adam did, in a moment of time. Glory was gone, and the worm was left behind. ‘I am a worm, and no man’ was the outcome of sin. So much more the beauty of Christ, though He is God, He became man; and He, as God, was made in the likeness of sinful flesh. Reverently I write, He became a worm to change me into a butterfly of glory. The Holy Ghost tells us that we will have a body like His glorious body, transformed by the power of the Almighty God — what grace! We behold this One of infinite power, He uses His power to become a worm like unto man. So that through His love and grace, He could change man to His own likeness. So great is this gift of faith from above, who can comprehend it’s depth or height. God manifest in the flesh took on Himself the sin of the world that by faith in Him — I might be like Him. Is there anything more that man could desire than this — then to be embraced by the Son of God in His uncomprehensible love; in comparison, our love is but a speck in the cosmos compared to His undying love. The Son of God in obedience to God the Father, and for His love for the world that had denied Him, gave Himself for man on the cross of Calvary.
Man did not take His life that day, He surrendered it to be the offering for sin. Our sin was covered by His sacrifice, and our sin was the cause of His death; and thus, He has made a way in which this worn can be changed into a butterfly of glory, and to be with Him, the Lord of glory for all eternity — without time or sin to enslave me. The Spirit of God writes in Galatians 2:20, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. The words ‘I am crucified with Christ’ I, as a man, must enter into the cocoon of death in Christ. I must know Him first, in the power of His death, before I can know Him in the power of resurrection. I must die in Him, this is faith greater than moving mountains. This is faith, that I will be changed in a twinkling of an eye at the last trump. This worm will, by faith in God, be as a glorious butterfly, with a body of glory like unto the Son of God, and all the sons of God said, ‘Amen.’
© Copyright 2015, Michael Haigh
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All Scripture references are from the Authorized King James Bible. (KJV)