Laminin...Holds us together!

Have you ever heard of "Laminin"?
To be honest with you, I never did before.

On Saturday night I went to the Chris Tomlin’s concert and was completely blown away when Louie Giglio, who is a special speaker at the tour, came out and spoke.
He showed pictures of galaxies and the four largest stars that have been discovered and compared them to how vast they are in comparison with the Earth and even the sun.
To us, they seem HUGE, but to God…
“No, for all the nations of the world are but a drop in the bucket. They are nothing more than dust on the scales. He picks up the whole earth as though it were a grain of sand”. Isaiah 40:15

Then he started talking about us (humans), and although we’re so insignificant compare to all the universes, God loves us very much, and how we are wonderfully made (Psalm 139).
He went on to talk about "Laminin", a protein in our body that literally holds our skin, organs and everything else in our body, in place. It literally is “the glue” of our body.

Louie said he met a Molecular Biologist a few years ago when he was a few days away from a christian conference, where he was supposed to talk about God and how the human body works. This Biologist was so fascinated, that started asking him what he was going to say. Louie wasn't very sure yet, but then the Biologist said to him "you HAVE to talk about Laminin".
Louie had no idea what it was, so this Biologist started explaining him the function of it, and how important Laminin is to hold the human body together. Basically without Laminin, our body cells won't reproduce and as a result, we would die.

I was so fascinated by it, that I decided to make a little research, especially after they showed us a picture of what Laminin looks like...

Here are a few of the things that I found:

Laminins are the major non-collagenous component of the basal lamina, such as those on which cells of an epithelium sit. They are a family of glycoproteins that are an integral part of the structural scaffolding of basement membranes in almost every animal tissue. Laminins are secreted and incorporated into cell-associated extracellular matrices.

Yes, it all sounds a little confusing, but basically, Laminin holds us together. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to make it!!

Colossians 1:17 says “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.”

God holds us together…even in our darkest hour, He still does. And He holds us together with Laminin…Do you want to know what Laminin looks like?

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r305/urselca/LAMININ.jpg

Now…Are you blown away also?? I’m still amazed by it. God created us into His image, holding us together with Laminin…And what does Laminin look like?? A cross!!!!

God holds us together with a cross…The Cross of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Tell me if this is not a God that should be praised, loved and served??? This is my God