‘See, I will make you into a threshing-sledge,
    new and sharp, with many teeth.
You will thresh the mountains and crush them,
    and reduce the hills to chaff.
16 You will winnow them, the wind will pick them up,
    and a gale will blow them away...

You may be Gideon-like, feeling so small and weak: worm-like really. But it’s what God makes of you that counts. He can transform your life into a mountain-moving tool. (There is the idea here that God is going to use His people as instruments of judgment, because ‘threshing’ and winnowing’ are figures of judgment.)

Somebody commented, ‘Imagine a worm being given teeth!

So it’s not what you think when you look in the mirror that counts. It’s who God is and what He can do with you.

At the beginning of His ministry, Jesus said to a number of men, ”Follow me, and I will make you…”

Just think what He did with them