Human Glue

Hubby and I recently went to a Christian concert; "How Great is Our God" tour featuring Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman singing and Lou Giglio speaking. Now, it really went against my nature to pay to go to what I think of as a "worship" concert. Just seems very contradictory. After all, I can worship anywhere God is - which is everywhere. But, we hadn't been anywhere in a long time so we shelled out the money and went.

I was so glad we did! The music was good, but to me, the highlight was Lou Giglio speaking. We were in Continental Arena in the Meadowlands with an almost full house, but as Lou spoke you could hear a pin drop. Quite amazing since the majority of the audience was under 21.

I don't remember quite how he started out but he brought up the subject of "human glue". - Laminin. It is the protein that quite literally holds our body together. The illustration is what it looks like. Pretty amazing to see it is in the shape of a cross! Consider this in the light of this scripture from Colossians 1:17 (NIV): 7He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

He then went on with a huge screen slideshow showing an ascending view of our solar system. He tried to give us perspective of how small our earth and sun really are in relation to the rest of the universe. I won't go into the details here as I really couldn't do it justice. But, the icing on the cake was when he spoke about Canis Majoris. (s?). This star which is I forget how many thousands of light years from earth is as big as not 4 earths, but 4 x earth's orbit around our sun. That is pretty huge! I could maybe relate to 4 earths or 400 earths filling the star, but 4x times our orbit around our sun! That is something! Contrast that to laminin which is microscopic and consider all this perfection created by God and it is mind blowing. Not only that, but truly, truly awesome! On top of all this God's spirit and peace confirmed what we, the audience, were observing and thinking. That was the reason for the massive quiet in the Arena.

The peace and comfort I received through this demonstration is something that hasn't left me even though it has been a couple of months. If I considered this only in my mind I don't think it would have been comforting. But, fortunately, with His help it is in my spirit. And that is where I receive His peace.

I gained a new view and understanding of how He created the world with order and natural laws. In our world upon earth, if the earth had even a slightly different angle or slightly different composition in the atmosphere, we would not be able to live here as we know it. It gave me a new understanding of how we cannot live as we want and expect God to suspend His natural laws to accomodate us. He can and does work supernaturally and miraculously to heal, to deliver us from our sin and many consequences and other things, but He has already ordained a natural order. That alone is miraculous!

Enough for now. A little longer than I usually write, but, hey, it's been about a month!

For now - here are some words of Jesus:

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. (John 14:27 NIV)

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