Stop Calling Yourself a Worm The Scandal of Our Divine Sonship and the Glory That Creation Is Waiting For
Most Christians live with a quiet, unspoken identity crisis.
They say “I’m just a sinner saved by grace,” or “I’m nothing but a worm,” or “I’m just human.”
They mean it as humility.
But what if that language is not humility at all — but a subtle unbelief that dishonors the very work of Christ and keeps the whole creation in bondage?
The New Testament does not describe us as improved sinners.
It describes us as a new creation — a completely different order of being.
1. We Are Not Improved Adams — We Are a New Species
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
— 2 Corinthians 5:17
The Greek word for “new creature” (kainē ktisis) does not mean “renovated.”
It means new kind — something that never existed before.
We are not Adam 2.0 with better morals.
We are a new humanity born from the last Adam, who is from heaven.
Paul makes this clear in 1 Corinthians 15:45–49:
“And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening [life-giving] spirit…
As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.”
We have been begotten of God (1 John 5:1; James 1:18).
The incorruptible seed — the very sperma (Greek for “seed”) of God Himself — has been planted in our spirit (1 Pet 1:23).
That seed is not a moral upgrade.
It is the living life of the Son, growing toward full expression.
Because we are in Christ, we too are destined to be life-giving spirits — just as He is.
We are no longer merely natural, living souls like the first Adam.
We now carry the same heavenly, life-giving nature that raised Christ from the dead.
This is not “partaking of divine virtues.”
This is divine life taking root in us.
We are no longer fundamentally earthy.
In our new birth and innermost being, we are heavenly.
2. False Humility Is Unbelief in Disguise
When we keep saying “I’m just a sinner,” “I’m worthless,” or “I’m only human,” we are not being humble.
We are calling God a liar.
God says: “Now are we the sons of God” (1 John 3:2).
Present tense. Not “we will be someday.” Now.
God says: “We shall be like Him” (1 John 3:2).
Not just in behavior — but in the fullness of glorified sonship.
God says: “The old man is crucified with Him” (Rom 6:6).
Dead. Buried. Gone.
To cling to the identity of the old Adam — to keep mourning over a corpse that Christ has already put to death — is not humility.
It is unbelief in the resurrection life that has already been imparted.
True humility is agreeing with God:
“Yes, I was worthless in myself.
But now I am what You say I am: Your son, born of Your divine life, destined to bear the image of the heavenly Man.”
3. Jesus Is the Perfect Pattern
Jesus did not deny His identity to be humble.
He knew exactly who He was:
“I and my Father are one” (John 10:30).
“Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58).
Yet He humbled Himself, became a servant, and obeyed unto death (Phil 2:5–8).
His humility was not self-diminishment.
It was living His true identity in dependence on the Father.
He is our model.
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5).
Real humility is knowing who you are in God — and living it without pride or shame.
4. This Is Not “Little Gods” — This Is the Gospel
We are not becoming the Creator.
We are not claiming ontological equality with God.
We are sons by adoption, begotten of His divine life, sharing in His nature by grace alone (2 Pet 1:4).
The early church fathers understood this:
“He became man that we might become god” (Athanasius) — not in essence, but by participation in the divine life that is growing in us.
We are not little gods.
We are children of God, carrying the seed of eternal life, destined to be fully conformed to the image of His Son (Rom 8:29).
5. The Cosmic Stakes: Creation Is Waiting for Us
Here is the staggering truth that should drop every jaw:
“The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
For the creature was made subject to vanity… in hope that the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”
— Romans 8:19–21
The whole creation — earth, sky, seas, animals, stars — is groaning in pain.
It is waiting for one thing: the unveiling of the sons of God.
Jesus Himself prayed that the glory He gave us would make us one, so that the world would know the Father sent Him (John 17:22–23).
Our revelation is not incidental.
It is the mechanism by which creation itself will be liberated.
Every believer who refuses to believe and live in their true identity is (unwittingly) contributing to the delay of the liberation the entire cosmos is crying out for.
6. The Final Call
Stop contending for the corpse of the old Adam.
Stop calling yourself a worm when God calls you a son.
Stop living as though the divine life planted in you is too small to matter.
You are a new creation.
The old has passed away.
All things have become new.
Believe what God says about you.
Live as sons and daughters — not in pride, but in joyful dependence on the Father who begot you.
The glory that awaits is not a private reward.
It is the cosmic event the whole universe is holding its breath for.
When the sons of God are fully revealed — when the divine life that is already growing in us breaks forth in its completed form — creation itself will be set free.
The enemy’s greatest work is not to make us deny Christ.
It is to make us forget who we have become in Him.
Rise up.
Believe.
Be unveiled.
The creation is waiting.
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”
— 1 John 3:2
Let that sink in.
And let it set you free.