The Cross in Our Bodies

This is a pretty neat true story and 
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! 

   

What I found when I googled laminin! 

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