ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE DAY (THIS IS A MUST READ...IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND AWAY)

The Cross in Our Bodies A couple of days ago I was running on my treadmill, watching a DVD sermon... 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 was talking about how inconceivably BIG our God is... How He spoke the universe into being... Then He went on to speak of how this 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???' He 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 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....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 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 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!! .....submitted by a reader to "Christian Voices" (www.ChristianVoicesWorldwide.net) LJG... It is the precious Cross of our Lord and Savior that really does hold us together!!! It is just plain stupid for people to reject the Cross and Jesus. But yet so many do. They are willing to let His Cross burn for eternity. It just breaks my heart even more for those who reject the Savior. How well would we handle being spit on in the face? Much less the beatings so bad that it stripped the skin to shreds? He did all this and more because of His great Love for us. I knew the the Tabernacle God instructed to be built was in the shape of a cross laying on the ground. Picturing Jesus being nailed on that Cross.