Laminin

Nothing but flesh and bones………  He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see—such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together. Colossians 1:16-16  This last year has been interesting to say the least but this last week has been exhausting, and its all because of Laminin!  Really you have to know about it. It’s the foundation of who we are the stuff that makes us.  Stood amongst 12000 people, watching, wondering what its all about. What makes all these people want to be in the same place. What makes them who they are? Is it just that we are flesh and bones all tricked in to the same existence and then left to it or is there some deeper purpose? 12000 people and you can still feel lost, like you’re the only one that doesn’t have a clue. As far as I was concerned flesh and bones, walking breathing nothingness were all that humans were, put on this earth and left. Yes there is a God and yes He is the God of the universe but He was only interested in those that He chose and the rest of us He had left here as humour.   Forgiven – maybe, child of God – possibly, washed white as snow……. I could maybe believe those if I tried really hard but loved and not forgotten about no chance. God had left me to it. I had given Him my all and He had turned away and didn’t want to know. I wasn’t good enough. I was so angry that I didn’t want to know anymore. If God was gona turn his back on me id do the same.  I don’t understand. I cant get my head around the size of God and the enormity of creation, the stars and solar systems. I don’t understand why or how things are as they are, or why someone would care about a person like me. I have done nothing to make me stand out as special, I have nothing of any importance to offer. I am just another person of little significance, a messed up broken peasant that has got it so wrong time after time. God doesn’t care, how could he?  Then I discovered Laminin. It’s a protein in the body, I could never even try to explain the complexity of its job but it basically holds the body together. Its what forms the cells and makes muscles work, so if it goes wrong pretty much your whole body goes wrong, you will become nothing but flesh and bones. Now this is the really cool bit……..this is what it looks like   GOogle it!  The perfect shape of the cross! Each cell is the shape of love. Each cell in our body is engraved with Jesus’ sacrificial love. Before I could even question I was made from Gods love. God knew it all, He knew how much I would mess up, how much I would hurt him, but he was still prepared to put His mark of approval on me and in me so that it could never be removed.   Psalm 139God Knows Everything 1 Lord, you have examined me        and know all about me. 2 You know when I sit down and when I get up.        You know my thoughts before I think them.  3 You know where I go and where I lie down.        You know everything I do.  4 Lord, even before I say a word,        you already know it. 5 You are all around me—in front and in back—        and have put your hand on me. 6 Your knowledge is amazing to me;        it is more than I can understand.  7 Where can I go to get away from your Spirit?        Where can I run from you?  8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there.        If I lie down in the grave, you are there. 9 If I rise with the sun in the east        and settle in the west beyond the sea, 10 even there you would guide me.        With your right hand you would hold me.  11 I could say, "The darkness will hide me.        Let the light around me turn into night."  12 But even the darkness is not dark to you.        The night is as light as the day;        darkness and light are the same to you.  13 You made my whole being;        you formed me in my mother's body.  14 I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way.        What you have done is wonderful.        I know this very well. 15 You saw my bones being formed        as I took shape in my mother's body.     When I was put together there,  16 you saw my body as it was formed.     All the days planned for me        were written in your book        before I was one day old.  17 God, your thoughts are precious to me.        They are so many!  18 If I could count them,        they would be more than all the grains of sand.     When I wake up,        I am still with you.  19 God, I wish you would kill the wicked!        Get away from me, you murderers!  20 They say evil things about you.        Your enemies use your name thoughtlessly. 21 Lord, I hate those who hate you;        I hate those who rise up against you. 22 I feel only hate for them;        they are my enemies.  23 God, examine me and know my heart;        test me and know my anxious thoughts.  24 See if there is any bad thing in me.        Lead me on the road to everlasting life.God had a plan a plan to do good never to harm or leave us. His plan and his creations are so carefully thought out that he stamped them with Laminin. Without the cross we are just flesh and bones.