Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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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