When we look back and wonder how we ever have made it thru the years, we realize it's not because we've been clever.. but because God has been wise; not because we've been strong... but because God has been mighty; not because we've been consistent... but because God has been faithful. Here's an account by a medical doctor about the wonders of God's creation.

I was watching a DVD sermon of Louie Giglio while running on my treadmill when I was blown away and was fascinated from a medical standpoint when he started to speak of how this universe-creating God also knitted our human bodies together with amazing detail and wonder. It was mind-boggling indeed.

 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. It wasn't because I was running my treadmill, either! It was because he started talking about laminin. I knew about laminins. 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 and 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 quadrillion 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! What an amazing God we serve.

By Tim Pedrosa

 

I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is.