The Glue That Holds Everything Together

In 2012, physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson — the subatomic particle that had eluded scientists for nearly fifty years. They called it "the God particle," not as a theological statement, but because without it, nothing in the universe should hold together. Without the Higgs field, atoms would fly apart. Stars would never form. You and I would not exist. The entire cosmos depends on this invisible force that gives matter its mass and structure.

Peter Higgs wept when they announced the discovery. Decades of theory, billions of dollars, thousands of scientists — all to find the hidden thing that makes everything cohere.

Paul would have smiled.

Writing to the Colossians, he declared that in Christ "all things hold together." Long before particle physics, Paul understood that creation is not self-sustaining. Every spinning electron, every galaxy pinwheeling through the dark, every heartbeat in your chest right now — all of it is held in place by the One who is before all things.