Just about all of us have someone that we consider a best friend – someone who knows everything about us and loves us anyway. It is easy to believe that a best friend will always be there for us when we go through tough situations and hard times. They are a tangible, living person that we can see and touch.

As much as God loves us, why can’t we believe that He cares for us much more than an earthly friend ever could? Why do we seem to second-guess Him much more than an earthly friend?

In Bible times, there were many heathen nations that surrounded Israel. They all had numerous idols and many gods who they worshiped. In fact, many of the people worshiped a god for every aspect of their life. They had numerous idols in their houses in hopes of the gods smiling down on them and giving them good luck and good fortune.

It was for this reason that God chose not to reveal Himself in the form of a statue that they could place on their mantle. He created the world and everything in it, so He would be able to meet every need of every person on the planet all at the same time. After all, He made every one of them and knew exactly what they needed.

Just because you can’t physically see God like you can a best friend does not mean that you can’t depend upon Him to meet your every need and help you in time of trouble.

When Jesus died on the cross, rose again, and went back to Heaven, the Holy Spirit came to live in the heart of every person who has accepted Jesus as their personal Savior.  You can depend on Him to lead you in the right direction and show you how to pray for what you need.

You can’t physically see Him, but He is very real. Instead of depending on earthly friends who can lead you astray, depend on the Holy Spirit to lead and guide you every step of the way.

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(This is from an email I received, and thought it was just too fantastic not to pass on.)

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 on 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 laminin 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…

‘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 even breathed his first breath.

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I’m so glad that God gave us a sense of humor so that we could laugh and keep ourselves from getting too serious with life; it can be overwhelming at times. Even in today’s medical world, laughter has been shown to be very good for a person’s health.

So hopefully this will make you smile.

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