MAN IS NATURALLY VAIN AND PROUD. But grace strips him and humbles him in the dust. Here the highly favoured David, the man after God's own heart, cries out, "I am a worm." How little, how despicable he appeared in his own eyes. Everyone that humbleth himself shall be exalted. You have looked at Bible saints, and have sighed out, "Ah! they were not like me!" My brother, are you not a poor, weak, worthless worm? Do you not feel so? David did. The less you are in your own eyes, the more fit you are for the Lord Jesus, and the more welcome will you be at the throne of grace. But this was the language also of David's Lord; this was the view the Jews had of Him, and they treated Him accordingly. The brightness of glory is compared to a lowly worm; the express image of the Father's person is treated with vile contempt. But it was for our salvation that our Lord suffered. O mystery of divine humiliation! Jesus is reduced to a level with the worm, that we may be raised higher than the angels.

For Meditation:
From Bethlehem's inn to Calvary's cross,
Affliction marked His road;
And many a weary step He took,
To bring us back to God!
By men despised, rejected, scorned,
No beauty they can see;
With grace and glory all adorned,
The loveliest form to me!