“Lord, Make Me A Bookworm Like That”
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin ArticlesIt is said that Charles Spurgeon once found an old worm-eaten Bible on the table at a Scottish wayside inn. Carefully holding it up to the light, he noticed only one hole through which the light shone.
One worm, it seems, had begun at Genesis and eaten all the way through to Revelation, and this moved Spurgeon to say, “Lord, make me a bookworm like that.”
Note the word “transformed“ in Romans 12:2, transliterated “metamorphoo,” from which we get our English word “metamorphosis” – “in Biology, a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the adult butterfly.”
As we study God’s word and make application of it (2 Timothy 2:15; Hebrews 5:14), we are being continually “transformed” from the “old man” (i.e., a caterpillar or worm) of sin (Romans 6:6) to the “new man” (i.e., a butterfly with wings) by the “renewing of our mind” (Romans 12:2; Ephesians 4:17-24; cf. 2 Corinthians 5:14-17).
The individual who becomes a bookworm, relative to the reading and study of the Bible, will never turn into an earthworm, for that individual will have wings by and by.
Brethren, let’s pray the prayer Spurgeon prayed — “Lord, make me a bookworm like that.”