DAILY READINGS: 1 Samuel 19:8-20:42; Isaiah 60:1-22; Romans 5:12-21
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. Psalm 22:6
Though your sins…be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18
Downtrodden, despised and the lowest of the low! Is it possible that our Lord could be so described? Only by Himself! Interestingly, the word for “worm” is the same as “crimson”—the word that is used to describe sins of deepest dye. By crushing the worm, a scarlet dye was obtained. Upon the cross, the Man of Sorrows, who knew no sin, was made sin for us and crushed beneath its judgment (Isa. 53:5, 10). May our love pour out to Him today! —Pete Smith
Crowned with thorns upon the tree, silent in Thine agony;
Dying, crushed beneath the load, of the wrath and curse of God. —Guiness