God Is the Glue

(This is not my words, but the words of an anonymous physician quoted to me in an email.  But the message is both beautiful and incredible so I wanted to share.)

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. But I fear  not being able to convey it as well as I want. I will share anyway.

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 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 the glue.

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.   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.’

 
                                               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 quad- rillion years convince me that 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.

And you will find the video of Louie Giglio on laminin here, courtesy of youtube.