COLUMN: PASTOR’S PENGod’s love is holding it all together

When it comes to computer terms or scientific formula I’m completely befuddled, writes Alan Millar.
By The Newsroom
Published 20th May 2020, 10:30 BST
Updated 22nd May 2020, 16:40 BST
This week's Pastor's Pen is by Alan MillarThis week's Pastor's Pen is by Alan Millar
This week's Pastor's Pen is by Alan Millar

For instance, the formula to describe laminin describes part of the body: Laminins are heterotrimeric proteins that contain an α-chain, a-chain, and a-chain, found in five, four, and three genetic variants, respectively - and so on. I leave it to doctors and scientists to understand it. However, what I do know is that laminin is the membrane that holds our inners together, a membrane that covers our organs so that they don’t fall apart, like the skin around the body. But now comes the interesting thing about laminin, and that is, that each molecule is shaped like a cross. This means that every human has the sign of the cross holding them together. In the same way, God’s love holds the universe together, it holds our world together, it holds God’s people together. We cannot imagine the power God had to create the universe or the tenderness and intricate creation of our bodies, so complex that doctors and scientists must narrow their field of expertise when studying the body’s different parts - heart, liver, kidney, bones, brain, and the mind – there is so much to know and understand about every little part. The psalmist writes: I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. And that, my soul knows very well. (Psalm 139:14) Only God holds the blueprints of our creation. He knows all about you. He knows your thoughts, your hopes and dreams, even the hairs on your head are numbered. And, because He created you, He loves you with such an amazing love, that He sent Jesus, His Son to earth, to take on mortal flesh, and eventually to die so that your sins would be pardoned.

Let us remember the words of Paul 35 - ‘Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:35, 38-39 (NKJV)) And to God be the glory. Amen