THE GOSPEL IN SCIENCE — EINSTEIN’S THEORY AND THE UNMOVING GRACE OF GOD

Einstein once startled the world by showing that space and time bend, stretch, and ripple—that nothing in the universe stands as rigid and absolute as we once imagined. His theory of relativity cracked open the old Newtonian certainty and revealed a cosmos where motion shapes reality itself.

Yet even in this vast, swirling ballet of stars and light, the gospel whispers a truth deeper than physics: creation may shift, suns may scatter, galaxies may drift, but the character of God stands gloriously unchanged—“the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8).

Relativity teaches us that the faster you move, the more time bends; the closer you draw to immense gravity, the slower your moments unfold. And still, in all that cosmic flexibility, something singular rises from Scripture—a fixed point, a divine constant.

Christ is not altered by velocity, era, culture, or circumstance. His love does not stretch thin under pressure, His mercy does not warp at the edges of our failures, His cross does not fade with distance. The universe may be elastic, but His covenant is not.

There is another image here—when Einstein showed that the speed of light is the one unchanging measurement in all of creation. Light, the very thing God spoke into being in the opening words of Genesis, stands as the anchor of reality.

Is it any wonder, then, that Christ proclaimed, “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12)? In a universe where even time itself flows like a river, light remains the one steady flame—and Christ, its truest fulfillment, remains the fixed center of every wandering heart.

And the wonder grows deeper: relativity reveals that massive objects curve the space around them, drawing smaller things toward their center.

Grace works much the same. The weight of God’s love bends the landscape of a soul, drawing the weary, the broken, and the stubborn into the orbit of Christ. Like planets circling their sun, we find our true path only when pulled by Someone greater, Someone whose gravity is kindness, whose atmosphere is mercy.

So the gospel in Einstein’s theory is this—everything else in the universe may shift, but Jesus Christ remains the constant that makes sense of all motion. When life bends you, when moments stretch thin, when seasons warp your sense of time, remember the unchanging Light who entered the world not to confuse it but to redeem it. In Him, the universe has a fixed point; in Him, your heart has a home.

Lord Jesus, unchanging Light of all creation, bend my drifting heart back toward Your steady grace. In a world of shifting seasons and stretching sorrows, let me rest in the constancy of Your love. Draw me into the sure orbit of Your mercy, and anchor my days in the One who never changes. Amen.

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