IT'S WHAT HOLD US ALL TOGETHER
A doctor I know was running on his treadmill watching a DVD that had a sermon on it and he stated that he was literally blown away. And he wanted to share what he had learned. The Pastor on the DVD was talking about how inconceivably BIG our God is -- how He spoke the universe into being. How He breathes stars out His mouth that are
huge raging balls of fire. Then he went on to talk about how this star breathing, universe creating God also knitted our human bodies together with such detail and wonder.
At this point, I am loving it, from a medical standpoint as I was remembering how I was constantly amazed during medical school as I learned more and more about God's creation. With all this creation how could anyone deny that this was the work of God?
Our living Creator is also a Sustainer. The God that created all this also has the power to hold it all together when things seem to be falling apart.
Then he started talking about laminins. I know about laminins. Here is how the dictionary describes them: Laminins are a family of proteins that are an intregral part of the structural scaffolding of basement membranes in almost every animal
tissue. Laminins are what hold us together! Literally! They are cell adhesions molecules. They are what holds one cell of our bodies to the next cell. Without them, we would literally fall apart. And I knew this already. But what I didn't know is
what they looked like.
But I do now! And I have thought about it a thousand times since . . . . . .
Here is what the structure of lamins looks like . . . . and this is not a "Christian portrayal" of it. If you look up laminin in any scientifice/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 a cross.
Immediately Colossians 1:15-17 comes to mind.
"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created; things in heave and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all thing were created by Him
and for Him. He is before all things and in Him all things HOLD TOGETHER.
Thousand of years before the world knew anything about laminins, Paul penned those words. And now we see from a very literal standpoint, we are held together . . . one cell to another . . . by the cross.
Our Creator knew exactly what laminin would look like long before Adams drew his first breath.
It is God's glue that holds us together as Legionaries. And the tighter we stick to the Blessed Mother the closer we are to her Son.
Thanks be to God!!!
The glue that holds us together . . . ALL of us . . . is in the shape of a cross.
Immediately Colossians 1:15-17 comes to mind.
"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created; things in heave and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all thing were created by Him
and for Him. He is before all things and in Him all things HOLD TOGETHER.
Thousand of years before the world knew anything about laminins, Paul penned those words. And now we see from a very literal standpoint, we are held together . . . one cell to another . . . by the cross.
Our Creator knew exactly what laminin would look like long before Adams drew his first breath.
It is God's glue that holds us together as Legionaries. And the tighter we stick to the Blessed Mother the closer we are to her Son.
Thanks be to God!!!