Worm Theology

God knows our hearts, our intentions, our actions. What we are building with our lives will last or not last. We need to live with an awesome respect for God’s awesome holiness so that we build something which will last. We all live with the frailty of life and it is, but we also live with the confidence of faith in a gracious loving God.

“Worm theology” is a focus on our sinfulness in light of God’s holiness.

Considering worms

{from the children’s song}
 Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
I think I'll go eat worms!
Big fat juicy ones,
Eensie weensy squeensy ones,
See how they wiggle and squirm!

Down goes the first one, down goes the second one,
Oh how they wiggle and squirm!
Up comes the first one, up comes the second one,
Oh how they wiggle and squirm!

I bite off the heads, and suck out the juice,
And throw the skins away!
Nobody knows how fat I grow,
On worms three times a day!

On a more serious note the effect of worm theology is to make us feel bad that we are awful sinners, without focusing on the grace goodness and power  of God which is highlighted by

Colossians 1:27-29 (ESV)
27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.


We are building our lives by how we live in light of eternity.