an interesting thing that few of us
know. It's brief, so please read.
(FROM A DOCTOR)
A
couple of days ago I was running (I use
that term very loosely) on my
treadmill,
watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio.
And I was BLOWN
AWAY! I want to share
what I learned....
He
(Louie) was talking about how inconceivably
BIG our God is... How He
spoke the universe
into being.. How He breathes stars out of His
mouth
that are huge raging balls of fire.. Etc.
Etc. Then He went on to speak
of how this
star-breathing, universe creating God ALSO
knitted our human bodies together with
amazing
detail and wonder. At this point I am LOVING
it (fascinating
from a medical standpoint, you
know.) .. And I was remembering how I was
constantly amazed during medical school as I
learned more and more
about God's handiwork.
I remember so many times thinking..'How can
ANYONE deny that a Creator did all of this?'
Louie
went on to talk about how we can trust
that the God who created all
this, also has the
power to hold it all together when things seem
to be
falling apart...how our loving Creator is
also our sustain-er.
And then I lost my breath. And it wasn't
because I was running my treadmill, either!
It was because he started talking about laminin.
I knew about laminin.. Here is how
Wikipedia describes
them: 'Laminins
are a family of proteins that are an integral
part of
the structural scaffolding of
basement membranes in almost every
animal
tissue' You see.... Laminins are
what hold us together... LITERALLY.
They are cell adhesion molecules.
They are what holds one cell of our
bodies to the next cell. Without them,
we would literally fall apart.
And
I knew
all this already. But what I didn't know
is what they LOOKED
LIKE..
But
now I do. And I have thought about it
a thousand times since
(already)....Here is
what the structure of laminin looks like...
AND
THIS IS NOT a 'Christian portrayal'
of it.... If you look up laminin in
any
scientific/medical piece of literature,
this is what you will
see....
Now tell me that our God is not the coolest! Amazing.
The glue that holds us together.... ALL of us..... Is in
the shape of the cross. Immediately Colossians
1:15-17 comes to mind.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over
all creation. All things were created by him and for him.
He is before all things, and in him All things
HOLD TOGETHER.' Colossians 1:15-17
Call
me crazy. I just think that is very, very, very cool.
Thousands of
years before the world knew anything
about laminin, Paul penned
those words. And now we
see that from a very LITERAL standpoint, we are
held together... One cell to another... By the cross.
You would never in a quadrillion years convince
me that this is anything other
than the mark of
a Creator who knew EXACTLY what laminin
'glue' would
look like long before Adam
breathed his first breath!
