Dear Friends,
I don't know the author of the story below, but from reading it, I am assuming,
since they went to medical school, he or she is a doctor. I have often read the verse in:
"Psalms 33:6 The heavens were made when the Lord commanded it to happen. All of the stars were created by the breath of his mouth,"
and I thought how amazing that GOD SPOKE AND THE HEAVENS WERE MADE, AND THE STARS CAME FROM THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH. I know that we will have to take the Bible as the true WORD OF GOD, to believe this. But honestly, to me it takes more faith to believe, that we evolved from one cell, and that the heavens and earth came from a "big bang," than it does to believe that there is a GOD IN THIS UNIVERSE, WHO LOVED AND CREATED A WORLD AND MAN, SO THAT HE COULD HAVE COMMUNION AND RELATIONSHIP WITH US.
"Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."
This is especially easy for me to believe, since I have had a personal relationship with the Creator, as MY HEAVENLY FATHER, since I was 7 years old.
(Below is the Message, that I rec'd today: from author unknown. Take the time to read it.
It is well worth 60 seconds of your time, just to be reminded, "HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD"):
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 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 laminin 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...
Note from friend, who forwarded the above message to me:
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
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 this is anything other than the mark of a Creator who knew EXACTLY what laminin "glue" would look like, long before Adam even breathed his first breath!!
Brilliant! My Mom sent this coolness to me and just had to share!
Stephanie Haile aka Wavecritter Google me
