Post by Paddy by Grace on Oct 3, 2009 3:52:04 GMT -7
This is a Sabbath day for me, (Sat.), And I will sometimes scan my email because friends will sometimes send me things that I use to meditate on. I didn't get everything posted yesterday because of life being more important, sooo... I woke up about 3 a.m. for some reason and couldn't sleep.
I opened my mail and there... was this amazing little article from Tekiah. Now I always like when they take a biblical look at physical things to see the wonderous things that Yah did in his magnificant Creation to send us these little messages. This one shook me up a bit. It talked about the 'glue' that literally holds us together, "Laminin", and then I saw the picture that was presented, (artist's conception of...), let's just say that I was blown away.
OK, I said to myself, "Self, calm down, it's just a picture, it's gotta be another joke, right? Larry sent this to Tekiah and she forwarded it on to me, yeah, that's the ticket." ...before I go any further, read the story below from Tekiah and then I will continue below...
I thought this was really interesting.
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The glue that holds all of us together...
Shared by an anonymous doctor
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 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 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!!
OK, didn't that give ya the 'heebie jeebies'? I almost fell of my chair, but wait a minute, it's a drawing... search engine here I come...lol.
Googalygooglaygoogalygoogaly... WHOA, it really does exist and is exactly what this piece said itself. But ya'll know that I am quite the skeptic, (God just loves to play with us skeptics), Then I saw the video...
OK, I am gonna watch this and see what it has to say. I will tell you people, what you are going to see will shock you, if it doesn't then you have already been shocked by it before and now you just think it is cool, or your have been totally 'given over'...
I will tell you that I cried through the last few minutes of this video and I could not help but fall to my knees and praise the Lord for the glue, in my life. Watch it now yourself... and rejoice!!!
God Bless you all
Paddy
p.s. I was so amazed by this I thought of going to zazzle to make up a t-shirt...lol. TOO LATE:
www.virtuousplanet.com/soulharvest/c00000000421#
(SOME OF US CATCH UP LATER THAN OTHERS...LOL)
I opened my mail and there... was this amazing little article from Tekiah. Now I always like when they take a biblical look at physical things to see the wonderous things that Yah did in his magnificant Creation to send us these little messages. This one shook me up a bit. It talked about the 'glue' that literally holds us together, "Laminin", and then I saw the picture that was presented, (artist's conception of...), let's just say that I was blown away.
OK, I said to myself, "Self, calm down, it's just a picture, it's gotta be another joke, right? Larry sent this to Tekiah and she forwarded it on to me, yeah, that's the ticket." ...before I go any further, read the story below from Tekiah and then I will continue below...
I thought this was really interesting.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The glue that holds all of us together...
Shared by an anonymous doctor
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 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 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!!
OK, didn't that give ya the 'heebie jeebies'? I almost fell of my chair, but wait a minute, it's a drawing... search engine here I come...lol.
Googalygooglaygoogalygoogaly... WHOA, it really does exist and is exactly what this piece said itself. But ya'll know that I am quite the skeptic, (God just loves to play with us skeptics), Then I saw the video...
OK, I am gonna watch this and see what it has to say. I will tell you people, what you are going to see will shock you, if it doesn't then you have already been shocked by it before and now you just think it is cool, or your have been totally 'given over'...
I will tell you that I cried through the last few minutes of this video and I could not help but fall to my knees and praise the Lord for the glue, in my life. Watch it now yourself... and rejoice!!!
God Bless you all
Paddy
p.s. I was so amazed by this I thought of going to zazzle to make up a t-shirt...lol. TOO LATE:
www.virtuousplanet.com/soulharvest/c00000000421#
(SOME OF US CATCH UP LATER THAN OTHERS...LOL)
