Jack of Harts

Forgiveness is a process. It doesn’t come in a day. We are commanded to forgive as Christians, but forgiveness is not easy. Having watched the Charlie Kirk Memorial and Celebration of Life, I felt it was too early for his wife to say that she forgave the shooter. I don’t think she has. And I never would have asked her to so soon. I think it would take an Act of God to help her forgive this quickly. But unless I read her wrong, she has decided to. If I’m right, it will take her time, but perhaps in time she really will. Whether she fully has or not, I think it was admirable of her to say it. She stated her intention, and I think that intention will see her through the days and weeks and years to come.

The celebration they put on was beyond admirable. It was amazing. They filled up two stadiums with tens of thousands of people each, and just the stream I was watching was around one hundred thousand people. The final numbers I’ve seen reported were one hundred million people who watched it live between the major networks, the streams, and those who were there. Plus millions more who watched it later.

Over one hundred million people across America and around the world joined together for the largest prayer and worship service I’ve seen in my entire life. And I felt it. The music was amazing. The singing. The worship. The pastors. I didn’t care much for the politicians speaking, but even they weren’t bad. It was the praise and worship that amazed me in a good way.

The Bible says that when two or more are gathered in His name, He is there. It says that devils tremble at the name of Jesus. We had one hundred million people gathered in his name and praising and worshipping Jesus, and the devils did tremble. And they are still trembling if the way they are talking about it over the last days is any indication. They don’t understand how we can react like. It doesn’t make sense to them, and that scares them.

Forgiveness is a process. And we have to do it to keep the rage from eating us up inside. It’s why we can be peaceful and calm and sing His praises as we stand against evil. It’s all part of the same fight. It’s all part of the process. We don’t seek to defeat evil because we hate it or fear it. The best of us are cheerful warriors, who battle evil with a smile on our faces and love in hearts.

Charlie was one of the best of us, and we all seek to be like Charlie now. He was an example of something evil feared so much that it had to send a kid to silence it. Silence him, in the very act of speaking against evil in the place where evil dwells and tries to infect the hearts of our youth. So now we will do what they fear and we will watch the demons tremble on all the networks as we do it.

It’s all part of the process.