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Thursday, 17 July 2014

Christ in the smallest details

This is the testimony of a medical doctor...  It is actually life changing!

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  sustainer.
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<http://www.wikipedia.org/> 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....    
     
     
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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 LITERALstandpoint, we are held together... One cell to another.... By the  cross.
You would never in a  quadrillion years convince me that is anything  othere than the  mark of a Creator who knew EXACTLY what laminin 'glue' would look like  long before Adam breathed his first breath!!
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