AS THE WORM TURNS 8.8.95

In the next sixty seconds, we’ll go undercover and dig up the dirt on some slimy creatures who make their living underground ... coming up on the next episode of, “As the Worm Turns” ...

The Agriculture Department has just released a new study that reveals how worms help to make the soil healthier (And you thought the government was wasting all of your hard-earned tax money ... ).

Anyway, it seems that this year-long study has unearthed the facts regarding worms and their benefit to the soil. According to USDA entomologist Edwin Berry, “Burrows left by the worms are nature’s own system for collecting rain water in the soil where plant roots can get their needed moisture.”

“This burrowing system also helps rain soak into the soil four times faster than normal, and, by the water seeping into the burrows, it keeps good topsoil from washing away, along with preventing agricultural chemicals from reaching rivers and streams.”

I didn’t know that.

Of course, I didn’t know there was such a thing as a USDA entomologist, but that’s beside the point. This tiny little creature, a snack for the early bird, a piece of bait on a fish hook, is used by God for quite a grandiose purpose. The worm, in spite of its limitations, is something of great value to all of us who have ever planted a garden or farmed the land or even tried to make grass grow.

That’s what makes God such a great God.

He knew exactly what He was doing when He made a worm ... He made it with a purpose ... and He made it with value.

Just like you and me.

Except, according to Jesus, we come out a whole lot better. Read the 10^th chapter of Matthew ... Sparrows by the thousands, yet He knows when even one falls to the ground. But they don’t compare to you and me and the other billions of people that have walked this earth.

He knows every person by name, every hair on every individual counted and numbered. We are valuable to Him ... and we are created with purpose.

Not unlike the amazing worm, who’s ecological and economical influence spreads far and wide ... from a link in the food chain ... to a builder of tunnels ... to creator of jobs.

A worm, create jobs?

Well, yea, if it weren’t for the worm, there would be no USDA entomologist.

Just think about that.