The Cross in Our Bodies (FROM A DOCTOR) A couple of days ago I was running on my treadmill, watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio... 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. 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 sustainer. And then I lost my breath. And it wasnt because I was running my treadmill, either!!! It was because he started talking about laminin. Here is how Wikipedia describes them: Laminins are a family of proteins that that are an integral part of the structural scaffolding of basement membranes in almost every animal tissue 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. 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. For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth, visible And invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or Authorities; All things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him All things HOLD TOGETHER. 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.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 08:32:56 +0000