June 29, 2025 • 27 mins
Love transcends scientific explanation yet governs everything in our universe. Drawing connections between Albert Einstein's profound letter to his daughter and spiritual truths, we discover how love operates as the fundamental force behind existence itself.
Einstein wrote that love is "an extremely powerful force that science has not found a formal explanation to" – describing it as light that enlightens, gravity that attracts, and power that multiplies our best qualities. His perspective remarkably aligns with spiritual teachings that "God is love" and "God is light." This harmony between scientific inquiry and faith offers a unique framework for understanding our deepest human experiences.
For anyone suffering from heartbreak, loss, or emotional wounds, this perspective provides genuine hope. When we understand love as the most powerful force in existence – not just a fleeting emotion but the very essence of creation – we can find strength beyond our own resources. Divine love waits patiently, holds securely, provides abundantly, comforts tenderly, and transforms thoroughly. It's the "ride or die" love that never abandons us.
What if Einstein was right that "love is the one and only answer" to humanity's greatest challenges? Consider opening yourself to this transformative force today. As Zephaniah 3:17 promises, God "will rejoice over you with gladness, quiet you with His love, and rejoice over you with singing." In this divine love, discover joy as your strength and healing for your deepest wounds.
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Dina Augustin (00:01):
Okay, everyone, today's podcast is about love.
That shouldn't be any surpriseto you, though.
So my question is what do youthink about love?
I have a big smile on my faceright now, because I can imagine
a lot of people are saying somethings to themselves about love
(00:21):
based on their lastrelationship.
Anyway, is not love one of themost powerful forces in the
world or in the universe, and isthe lack of love one of the
biggest problems humanitysuffers from today?
Think about those two questions.
(00:50):
Now some Some people shy awayfrom love, some people run from
love, some people run after love, and many do not know how to
love, and some would notrecognize love if it hit him in
the face.
Now, if we listen to most songson your favorite station or
(01:11):
Spotify, or Pandora, youtube,whatever, I think you'll find
that most songs speak about loveand romance and matters of the
heart, especially the songs ofold.
Well, and we know, lovecommunicated today is a lot
(01:32):
different than it wascommunicated 50 years ago in .
But but anyway, I think we findthat in many, many songs,
whatever the genre is, we hearabout the longing heart, the
wounded heart, the broken heart,the heart filled with holes,
hearts filled with hate andvengeance.
(01:54):
You can listen to any artist,any rock star, any R&B artist,
any pop star, and you will hearabout relationships and love and
brokenness.
So, So I'm going to continuetalking about love today and in
(02:18):
doing so I want to read a letterto you from Albert Einstein to
his daughter, and I want you tothink about this question as you
read it, because many peoplesay you can't have love if you
don't love yourself.
You can't know real love if youdon't love yourself, and I
(02:41):
really don't agree with that.
And I really don't agree withthat, but But a lot of
psychologists and sociologistsand therapists would say, no,
you have to know how to loveyourself first, but then I think
love won't exist at all,because I think most of us have
issues with ourselves.
But anyway, I'm going to readthe letter that Albert Einstein
(03:03):
wrote to his daughter, of course, years and years and years ago.
Here it goes (03:08):
goes "When when I proposed the theory
of relativity, very fewunderstood me, and what I will
reveal now to transmit tomankind will also collide with
the misunderstanding andprejudice in the world.
I ask you to guard the lettersas long as necessary years,
(03:35):
decades, until society isadvanced enough to accept what I
will explain .
.
below.
There is an extremely powerfulforce that so far science has
not found a formal explanationto.
It is a force that includes andgoverns all others and is even
(03:59):
behind any phenomenon operatingin the universe and has not yet
been identified by us.
This universal force is Love.
Capital L, capital O, capital V, capital E.
When scientists looked for aunified theory of the universe,
(04:24):
they forgot the most powerfulunseen force.
Love is light that enlightensthose who give and receive it.
Love is gravity, because itmakes some people feel attracted
to others, attracted to others.
(04:49):
Love is power, because itmultiplies the best we have and
allows humanity not to beextinguished in their blind
selfishness.
Love unfolds and reveals.
answer, love we live Albert and.
(07:43):
" die.
In Love is God and God is love.
This force explains everythingand gives meaning to Einstein.
This is the variable that wehave ignored for too long, maybe
because we are afraid of love,because it is the only energy in
the universe that man has notlearned to drive at will, that
man has not learned to drive atwill.
To give visibility to love, Imade a simple substitution in my
most famous equation If,instead of E equals MC squared,
we accept that the energy toheal the world So, can be
juxtaposing obtained throughlove.
Multiplied by the speed oflight squared, we arrive at the
conclusion that love is the mostpowerful force there is because
Now, we no limits.
After the failure of humanityand the use and control of the
other forces of the universethat have turned against us,
Jesus is urgent that we nourishourselves with another kind of
energy.
If we want our species tosurvive, if we are to find
meaning in life, if we want tosave the world and every
sentient being that inhabits it,love is the one and only answer
.
Perhaps we are not yet ready tomake a bomb of love, a device
powerful enough to entirelydestroy the hate, selfishness
and greed that devastate theplanet.
However, .
each individual carries withinthem a small but powerful
generator of love, whose energyis waiting to be released.
When we learn to give andreceive this universal energy,
dear Lucero, we will haveaffirmed that love conquers all,
is able to transcend everythingand anything, because love is
the quintessence of life.
I deeply regret not having beenable to express what is in my
many, which has quietly beatenfor you all my life.
says, " Maybe it's too late toapologize, but as time is
relative, I need to tell youthat I love you and thanks to
you, I have reached the ultimateanswer your father, albert
says, Einstein"this in thispodcast.
I guess you get the idea thatI'm talking about light, love,
einstein and God, and darkness".
(10:53):
That's that we're having somuch .
with love and God that again,I'm including Einstein in the
conversation"I because he maynot have believed in the
personal God as we see it, buthe did to himself in a God, in a
God that 119, everything"Yourand that everything was in God,
and I want the listener toconsider the existence of love
1, "The and time as a point ofhealing.
So I'm juxtasupposing God andEinstein, and forgive me for the
pronunciation I always have ahard time with that word, but I
like to say it Now.
We know Einstein is a scientist, so perhaps I will have the
ears of some intellectuals,because sometimes the more
brilliant we are, the harder itis for us to accept the concept
of God.
But Einstein speaks of all ofthem together light, love and
God in his letter and in a lotof his letters to the scientific
world.
Now, yes, maybe he didn'tbelieve in the triune God, as a
Christian did, but the ChristianGod says that he is light and
the Christian God says that hehas created everything and that
nothing exists without him.
The Christian God also saysthat, basically, he sits out of
time, outside of time, and thathe created time.
So I find the conversation thatEinstein has and other
scientists have about thetheories of light and relativity
and time and light because theydon't really contradict God at
all.
Now, yes, I may be making somegeneric and elementary
commentaries about thesetheories because of course, I am
not a scientist, but Iwholeheartedly know that science
or God are compatible and thatscience means to know and that
God says he is omniscient,meaning all knowing.
God says that he is light and ifyou read the Bible and any
verses you'll find in the bookof John, jesus says I am the
light of the world.
In 1 John, god is -then InGenesis, god made the planets to
serve as signs for days andyears.
Yeah, 1 John 1 says this is themessage we have heard from him
and announced to you that God islight and in him there is no
darkness.
That's just one of the versesIn John, chapter 8, again Jesus
spoke to them saying I am thelight of the world.
So repeatedly in the Bible youwill see that God refers himself
as light.
The word is light Psalm 119,.
(11:14):
Your word is a lamp to my feetand a light unto my path.
Again, in John 1,.
The light shines in thedarkness.
So God is light.
Einstein studied light and he alittle bit but, , time.
seems to stop.
(11:35):
When you reach the speed oflight, time slows.
Interesting because God says hesits outside of time and he is
light.
Then you've approached him andhe says be still and know that I
am God.
Be still and you will know him.
(11:55):
So if you travel with God, youwill know God.
I know I'm stretching it alittle bit, but consider that I
started this podcast thinkingabout people that are broken
hearted, that feel like theywould die of one's a broken
heart, people that lose thingsand they break and their mind
(12:18):
breaks.
And so I went to Einstein,because he talked about God and
love and light together, and Iwant to tie the two together for
the person who is broken, whofeels like they can't go on, who
needs to know the joy of theLord.
And one way for me to expressthat is to remind you or inform
(12:45):
the listener that God does exist, that God is the creator of
everything seen and unseen, thatmost sciences, though they
would rather deny, are searchingfor God and trying to prove God
, because the only sources oflight they know are as if you
reach a star or planet.
But God says he created all ofthat and that he is the source
(13:08):
of light anywhere that exists,whether it's in a light bulb or
a reflection from a star, or thefire from the sun.
But in any case, let me go towhat God also is, which is love,
and there we will find why thejoy of the Lord can be one
(13:30):
strength.
Because I have struggled,saying well, how is the joy of
the Lord going to be my strength?
I know God exists, I believe inGod, god exists, but what's
going to really help you acceptthe joy of the Lord to be your
strength?
Well, you have to know that heis love and that he loves you.
(13:51):
In 1 John, chapter 4 says, "o wehave come to know and to
believe the love that God hasfor us.
God is love, and whoever abidesin love abides in God, and God
abides in him" John 3, 16, whichis common to most who are
Christian, for God so loved theworld that he gave his only son
(14:15):
that whoever believes in himshould not perish but have
eternal life.
And God says there's no moreperfect love than the love that
one would give of himself foranother.
1 John, chapter 4, again says,"nyone who does not love does
not know God.
Because God is love".
(14:38):
1 John chapter 4, and I lovethe Gospel of John because his
are the love chapters, or thelove Gospels, " we love, because
he first loved us.
So God is a lover, God loves,and his love is perfect, without
blemish, because this God isperfect, all-knowing,
(15:03):
ever-present, all-powerful.
So that means even his love isthe most powerful force that
exists.
What did Einstein say?
What did I say at the beginning?
That love is known to be as themost powerful force in the
universe! The most powerful.
(15:25):
Now, if God is love, that iseven more powerful when you know
the source behind true love.
So how can you overcome beingbrokenhearted, how can you
overcome or prevent having afractured mind?
(15:47):
How can you make it from oneday to the next?
And that is to know that thejoy of the Lord is the joy
knowing that there is a God whomade you, there is a God who
knows you, there is a God whowould do anything for you, there
is a God that died for you.
(16:10):
In 1 John 3, it says, "see whatkind of love the Father has
given to us that we should becalled children of God, and so
we are".
The reason why the world doesnot know us is that it did not
know him.
" meaning God.
I'm going to read that again; 1John, chapter 3, "See what kind
(16:32):
of love the Father has given tous that we should be called
children of God, and so we are"And so you are.
And that in this love, God wasmade manifest among mankind that
(16:53):
he sent his only son to die, todie that we might live through
him.
And it says in this is love,not that we have loved God, but
that he loved us and sent hisson to be the propitiation for
our sins.
Now we have redemption.
And in God's love, in Hisperfect love there is no fear.
Perfect love casts out fear,perfect love casts out
(17:15):
punishment.
(17:37):
So when we're struggling withbroken heartedness , when we're
struggling with wounded hearts,when we're struggling with how
to move on, when we've lostsomething so dear; we can say
that the joy of the Lord is ourstrength, the joy of knowing a
God that manifests in the earthas a human to suffer as a human,
to die for us, to teach us howto dwell in his peace and dwell
(18:02):
in his love and to rest in him.
We can make it, we can overcome, we can be healed, because he
also says that he is the healerof the brokenhearted and binds
up all of our wounds.
So we can find joy in the lordby really knowing who this God
(18:26):
is.
What does God say he is?
?
And there are so many powerfulattributes of God's love in the
Bible.
You know, in Psalm 136, itsays, says"give give thanks to
the God of heaven, for hisloving devotion endures forever.
(18:47):
His loving devotion is to us,not to anyone else.
His loving devotion is to thosethat he created in his image.
We are created in God's imageand in that image is light and
love and power.
(19:07):
We have the power to overcomeand that power comes from his
love, his enduring love thatdwells in us when we accept his
love and the expression of hislove, the fullest expression of
his love is in Jesus Christ, whodied for us.
So in accepting the love ofChrist that he would die for
(19:31):
just one of us, is that enduringlove, that profound love, that
deep love that cannot be broken,that love that holds tightly,
that love that soothes andassuages our pains.
(19:54):
So, yes, there is joy in knowingGod.
And in knowing God we can findstrength.
And he actually says he is ourstrength when we are weak.
And his love is transformative,and he is patient with us, no
matter the trials, no matter thebrokenness, no matter our hard
(20:18):
heartedness, no matter how hardhearted we've become because of
all the hurts that we suffered.
His love waits.
His love nurtures.
His love holds.
His love provides.
His love comforts, his lovewarms us.
His love transforms ourhard-heartedness.
(20:39):
His love is healing.
So, when we go back to thephrase that we can't know real
love unless we love ourselves,well, God says we are to love
Him.
And when we learn to love him,then we are to love ourselves
(21:00):
because he made us, and to loveone another and to love one
anothr.
When we seek God's face, turnto God in all our brokenness, we
will find true, unending love,durable love, patient love, kind
(21:20):
love, a love that doesn'tpersecute but a love that lifts
up, a love that stands.
It's the ride or die love,because God never leaves us nor
forsakes us.
It's the ride or die, friend,that you have in God, in your
Savior, Jesus Christ, in thepresence of the indwelling Holy
Spirit, who comes in to comfortand to lead and guide.
(21:46):
So, for those of you thatcontemplated the question at the
beginning about the power oflove, is the most powerful force
in the universe and is the lackof love the biggest problem in
humanity?
Consider what Einstein says,knowing one of the most
(22:10):
brilliant scientists that everexisted, and what he says about
God and love and light, and whatGod says about himself being
love and light and eternal - noend and no beginning.
Scientists don't know theactual source of light, except
for to refer to a star.
(22:31):
Think about that.
NowNow, in closing, I'm going to
read a poem, of course, calledDeliverance.
A love hushed is like thethunder never breaking.
A love denied is like the wavesnever quaking.
(22:53):
Turn sun, turn moon and hideyour faces from me, left to
wander in the shadows.
Oh, darkness, let me be.
How the labor endures with nobirth forthcoming, how the heart
pants and beats withdesperation.
Time is haunting.
(23:13):
More blood, more sweat and moretears.
The toll has been paid each andevery year.
The tick, the tock, the tick ofthat clock.
Time is eternity without anygoal.
Time is eternity without anysoul.
(23:35):
So it ticks and it tocks and soit mocks.
Bleed some more, sweat somemore and cry for not Bleed some
more, sweat some more inempathy's lot - and the travail
drags on.
Does my beloved care?
(23:57):
As the fever boils over thelamb grasps for air?
Someone, anyone, stop time andturn back the years?
A still birth is what naturereally fears.
Labor without end.
Labor incomplete.
Labor in vain.
Labor through defeat.
(24:19):
Euphoria and utopia infuse thedrugs, please! Will my chosen
appear and give birth to me?
Open the floodgates, turn upthe sound.
A love hush should not be bound.
Let it go, let it be, let itgrow.
Labor for love, the labor's inme.
(24:41):
Labor for love, labor for me.
God did, God does.
I want you to make the joy ofthe Lord your strength.
The joy of the Lord is yourstrength, it can be your
strength.
Knowing him is having truestrength.
(25:05):
Knowing him, he is truestrength.
Zephaniah, chapter 3, verse 17,proclaims, " the Lord, your God
, is among you.
He will rejoice over you withgladness.
He will quiet you with his love.
He will rejoice over you withsinging.
(25:33):
Now contemplate and meditate onthat verse.
Meditate on the joy and thelove that the Lord, god, has for
you.
Rest in him, rest in this truthand rest in his love, Amen.
Okay, everyone, today's podcast is about love.
That shouldn't be any surpriseto you, though.
So my question is what do youthink about love?
I have a big smile on my faceright now, because I can imagine
a lot of people are saying somethings to themselves about love
(00:21):
based on their lastrelationship.
Anyway, is not love one of themost powerful forces in the
world or in the universe, and isthe lack of love one of the
biggest problems humanitysuffers from today?
Think about those two questions.
(00:50):
Now some Some people shy awayfrom love, some people run from
love, some people run after love, and many do not know how to
love, and some would notrecognize love if it hit him in
the face.
Now, if we listen to most songson your favorite station or
(01:11):
Spotify, or Pandora, youtube,whatever, I think you'll find
that most songs speak about loveand romance and matters of the
heart, especially the songs ofold.
Well, and we know, lovecommunicated today is a lot
(01:32):
different than it wascommunicated 50 years ago in .
But but anyway, I think we findthat in many, many songs,
whatever the genre is, we hearabout the longing heart, the
wounded heart, the broken heart,the heart filled with holes,
hearts filled with hate andvengeance.
(01:54):
You can listen to any artist,any rock star, any R&B artist,
any pop star, and you will hearabout relationships and love and
brokenness.
So, So I'm going to continuetalking about love today and in
(02:18):
doing so I want to read a letterto you from Albert Einstein to
his daughter, and I want you tothink about this question as you
read it, because many peoplesay you can't have love if you
don't love yourself.
You can't know real love if youdon't love yourself, and I
(02:41):
really don't agree with that.
And I really don't agree withthat, but But a lot of
psychologists and sociologistsand therapists would say, no,
you have to know how to loveyourself first, but then I think
love won't exist at all,because I think most of us have
issues with ourselves.
But anyway, I'm going to readthe letter that Albert Einstein
(03:03):
wrote to his daughter, of course, years and years and years ago.
Here it goes (03:08):
goes "When when I proposed the theory
of relativity, very fewunderstood me, and what I will
reveal now to transmit tomankind will also collide with
the misunderstanding andprejudice in the world.
I ask you to guard the lettersas long as necessary years,
(03:35):
decades, until society isadvanced enough to accept what I
will explain .
.
below.
There is an extremely powerfulforce that so far science has
not found a formal explanationto.
It is a force that includes andgoverns all others and is even
(03:59):
behind any phenomenon operatingin the universe and has not yet
been identified by us.
This universal force is Love.
Capital L, capital O, capital V, capital E.
When scientists looked for aunified theory of the universe,
(04:24):
they forgot the most powerfulunseen force.
Love is light that enlightensthose who give and receive it.
Love is gravity, because itmakes some people feel attracted
to others, attracted to others.
(04:49):
Love is power, because itmultiplies the best we have and
allows humanity not to beextinguished in their blind
selfishness.
Love unfolds and reveals.
answer, love we live Albert and.
(07:43):
" die.
In Love is God and God is love.
This force explains everythingand gives meaning to Einstein.
This is the variable that wehave ignored for too long, maybe
because we are afraid of love,because it is the only energy in
the universe that man has notlearned to drive at will, that
man has not learned to drive atwill.
To give visibility to love, Imade a simple substitution in my
most famous equation If,instead of E equals MC squared,
we accept that the energy toheal the world So, can be
juxtaposing obtained throughlove.
Multiplied by the speed oflight squared, we arrive at the
conclusion that love is the mostpowerful force there is because
Now, we no limits.
After the failure of humanityand the use and control of the
other forces of the universethat have turned against us,
Jesus is urgent that we nourishourselves with another kind of
energy.
If we want our species tosurvive, if we are to find
meaning in life, if we want tosave the world and every
sentient being that inhabits it,love is the one and only answer
.
Perhaps we are not yet ready tomake a bomb of love, a device
powerful enough to entirelydestroy the hate, selfishness
and greed that devastate theplanet.
However, .
each individual carries withinthem a small but powerful
generator of love, whose energyis waiting to be released.
When we learn to give andreceive this universal energy,
dear Lucero, we will haveaffirmed that love conquers all,
is able to transcend everythingand anything, because love is
the quintessence of life.
I deeply regret not having beenable to express what is in my
many, which has quietly beatenfor you all my life.
says, " Maybe it's too late toapologize, but as time is
relative, I need to tell youthat I love you and thanks to
you, I have reached the ultimateanswer your father, albert
says, Einstein"this in thispodcast.
I guess you get the idea thatI'm talking about light, love,
einstein and God, and darkness".
(10:53):
That's that we're having somuch .
with love and God that again,I'm including Einstein in the
conversation"I because he maynot have believed in the
personal God as we see it, buthe did to himself in a God, in a
God that 119, everything"Yourand that everything was in God,
and I want the listener toconsider the existence of love
1, "The and time as a point ofhealing.
So I'm juxtasupposing God andEinstein, and forgive me for the
pronunciation I always have ahard time with that word, but I
like to say it Now.
We know Einstein is a scientist, so perhaps I will have the
ears of some intellectuals,because sometimes the more
brilliant we are, the harder itis for us to accept the concept
of God.
But Einstein speaks of all ofthem together light, love and
God in his letter and in a lotof his letters to the scientific
world.
Now, yes, maybe he didn'tbelieve in the triune God, as a
Christian did, but the ChristianGod says that he is light and
the Christian God says that hehas created everything and that
nothing exists without him.
The Christian God also saysthat, basically, he sits out of
time, outside of time, and thathe created time.
So I find the conversation thatEinstein has and other
scientists have about thetheories of light and relativity
and time and light because theydon't really contradict God at
all.
Now, yes, I may be making somegeneric and elementary
commentaries about thesetheories because of course, I am
not a scientist, but Iwholeheartedly know that science
or God are compatible and thatscience means to know and that
God says he is omniscient,meaning all knowing.
God says that he is light and ifyou read the Bible and any
verses you'll find in the bookof John, jesus says I am the
light of the world.
In 1 John, god is -then InGenesis, god made the planets to
serve as signs for days andyears.
Yeah, 1 John 1 says this is themessage we have heard from him
and announced to you that God islight and in him there is no
darkness.
That's just one of the versesIn John, chapter 8, again Jesus
spoke to them saying I am thelight of the world.
So repeatedly in the Bible youwill see that God refers himself
as light.
The word is light Psalm 119,.
(11:14):
Your word is a lamp to my feetand a light unto my path.
Again, in John 1,.
The light shines in thedarkness.
So God is light.
Einstein studied light and he alittle bit but, , time.
seems to stop.
(11:35):
When you reach the speed oflight, time slows.
Interesting because God says hesits outside of time and he is
light.
Then you've approached him andhe says be still and know that I
am God.
Be still and you will know him.
(11:55):
So if you travel with God, youwill know God.
I know I'm stretching it alittle bit, but consider that I
started this podcast thinkingabout people that are broken
hearted, that feel like theywould die of one's a broken
heart, people that lose thingsand they break and their mind
(12:18):
breaks.
And so I went to Einstein,because he talked about God and
love and light together, and Iwant to tie the two together for
the person who is broken, whofeels like they can't go on, who
needs to know the joy of theLord.
And one way for me to expressthat is to remind you or inform
(12:45):
the listener that God does exist, that God is the creator of
everything seen and unseen, thatmost sciences, though they
would rather deny, are searchingfor God and trying to prove God
, because the only sources oflight they know are as if you
reach a star or planet.
But God says he created all ofthat and that he is the source
(13:08):
of light anywhere that exists,whether it's in a light bulb or
a reflection from a star, or thefire from the sun.
But in any case, let me go towhat God also is, which is love,
and there we will find why thejoy of the Lord can be one
(13:30):
strength.
Because I have struggled,saying well, how is the joy of
the Lord going to be my strength?
I know God exists, I believe inGod, god exists, but what's
going to really help you acceptthe joy of the Lord to be your
strength?
Well, you have to know that heis love and that he loves you.
(13:51):
In 1 John, chapter 4 says, "o wehave come to know and to
believe the love that God hasfor us.
God is love, and whoever abidesin love abides in God, and God
abides in him" John 3, 16, whichis common to most who are
Christian, for God so loved theworld that he gave his only son
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that whoever believes in himshould not perish but have
eternal life.
And God says there's no moreperfect love than the love that
one would give of himself foranother.
1 John, chapter 4, again says,"nyone who does not love does
not know God.
Because God is love".
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1 John chapter 4, and I lovethe Gospel of John because his
are the love chapters, or thelove Gospels, " we love, because
he first loved us.
So God is a lover, God loves,and his love is perfect, without
blemish, because this God isperfect, all-knowing,
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ever-present, all-powerful.
So that means even his love isthe most powerful force that
exists.
What did Einstein say?
What did I say at the beginning?
That love is known to be as themost powerful force in the
universe! The most powerful.
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Now, if God is love, that iseven more powerful when you know
the source behind true love.
So how can you overcome beingbrokenhearted, how can you
overcome or prevent having afractured mind?
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How can you make it from oneday to the next?
And that is to know that thejoy of the Lord is the joy
knowing that there is a God whomade you, there is a God who
knows you, there is a God whowould do anything for you, there
is a God that died for you.
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In 1 John 3, it says, "see whatkind of love the Father has
given to us that we should becalled children of God, and so
we are".
The reason why the world doesnot know us is that it did not
know him.
" meaning God.
I'm going to read that again; 1John, chapter 3, "See what kind
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of love the Father has given tous that we should be called
children of God, and so we are"And so you are.
And that in this love, God wasmade manifest among mankind that
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he sent his only son to die, todie that we might live through
him.
And it says in this is love,not that we have loved God, but
that he loved us and sent hisson to be the propitiation for
our sins.
Now we have redemption.
And in God's love, in Hisperfect love there is no fear.
Perfect love casts out fear,perfect love casts out
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punishment.
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So when we're struggling withbroken heartedness , when we're
struggling with wounded hearts,when we're struggling with how
to move on, when we've lostsomething so dear; we can say
that the joy of the Lord is ourstrength, the joy of knowing a
God that manifests in the earthas a human to suffer as a human,
to die for us, to teach us howto dwell in his peace and dwell
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in his love and to rest in him.
We can make it, we can overcome, we can be healed, because he
also says that he is the healerof the brokenhearted and binds
up all of our wounds.
So we can find joy in the lordby really knowing who this God
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is.
What does God say he is?
?
And there are so many powerfulattributes of God's love in the
Bible.
You know, in Psalm 136, itsays, says"give give thanks to
the God of heaven, for hisloving devotion endures forever.
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His loving devotion is to us,not to anyone else.
His loving devotion is to thosethat he created in his image.
We are created in God's imageand in that image is light and
love and power.
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We have the power to overcomeand that power comes from his
love, his enduring love thatdwells in us when we accept his
love and the expression of hislove, the fullest expression of
his love is in Jesus Christ, whodied for us.
So in accepting the love ofChrist that he would die for
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just one of us, is that enduringlove, that profound love, that
deep love that cannot be broken,that love that holds tightly,
that love that soothes andassuages our pains.
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So, yes, there is joy in knowingGod.
And in knowing God we can findstrength.
And he actually says he is ourstrength when we are weak.
And his love is transformative,and he is patient with us, no
matter the trials, no matter thebrokenness, no matter our hard
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heartedness, no matter how hardhearted we've become because of
all the hurts that we suffered.
His love waits.
His love nurtures.
His love holds.
His love provides.
His love comforts, his lovewarms us.
His love transforms ourhard-heartedness.
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His love is healing.
So, when we go back to thephrase that we can't know real
love unless we love ourselves,well, God says we are to love
Him.
And when we learn to love him,then we are to love ourselves
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because he made us, and to loveone another and to love one
anothr.
When we seek God's face, turnto God in all our brokenness, we
will find true, unending love,durable love, patient love, kind
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love, a love that doesn'tpersecute but a love that lifts
up, a love that stands.
It's the ride or die love,because God never leaves us nor
forsakes us.
It's the ride or die, friend,that you have in God, in your
Savior, Jesus Christ, in thepresence of the indwelling Holy
Spirit, who comes in to comfortand to lead and guide.
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So, for those of you thatcontemplated the question at the
beginning about the power oflove, is the most powerful force
in the universe and is the lackof love the biggest problem in
humanity?
Consider what Einstein says,knowing one of the most
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brilliant scientists that everexisted, and what he says about
God and love and light, and whatGod says about himself being
love and light and eternal - noend and no beginning.
Scientists don't know theactual source of light, except
for to refer to a star.
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Think about that.
NowNow, in closing, I'm going to
read a poem, of course, calledDeliverance.
A love hushed is like thethunder never breaking.
A love denied is like the wavesnever quaking.
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Turn sun, turn moon and hideyour faces from me, left to
wander in the shadows.
Oh, darkness, let me be.
How the labor endures with nobirth forthcoming, how the heart
pants and beats withdesperation.
Time is haunting.
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More blood, more sweat and moretears.
The toll has been paid each andevery year.
The tick, the tock, the tick ofthat clock.
Time is eternity without anygoal.
Time is eternity without anysoul.
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So it ticks and it tocks and soit mocks.
Bleed some more, sweat somemore and cry for not Bleed some
more, sweat some more inempathy's lot - and the travail
drags on.
Does my beloved care?
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As the fever boils over thelamb grasps for air?
Someone, anyone, stop time andturn back the years?
A still birth is what naturereally fears.
Labor without end.
Labor incomplete.
Labor in vain.
Labor through defeat.
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Euphoria and utopia infuse thedrugs, please! Will my chosen
appear and give birth to me?
Open the floodgates, turn upthe sound.
A love hush should not be bound.
Let it go, let it be, let itgrow.
Labor for love, the labor's inme.
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Labor for love, labor for me.
God did, God does.
I want you to make the joy ofthe Lord your strength.
The joy of the Lord is yourstrength, it can be your
strength.
Knowing him is having truestrength.
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Knowing him, he is truestrength.
Zephaniah, chapter 3, verse 17,proclaims, " the Lord, your God
, is among you.
He will rejoice over you withgladness.
He will quiet you with his love.
He will rejoice over you withsinging.
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Now contemplate and meditate onthat verse.
Meditate on the joy and thelove that the Lord, god, has for
you.
Rest in him, rest in this truthand rest in his love, Amen.
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