Forgiveness is a process. It doesn\u2019t 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\u2019t 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\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n
Over one hundred million people across America and around the world joined together for the largest prayer and worship service I\u2019ve seen in my entire life. And I felt it. The music was amazing. The singing. The worship. The pastors. I didn\u2019t care much for the politicians speaking, but even they weren\u2019t bad. It was the praise and worship that amazed me in a good way.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t understand how we can react like. It doesn\u2019t make sense to them, and that scares them.<\/p>\n
Forgiveness is a process. And we have to do it to keep the rage from eating us up inside. It\u2019s why we can be peaceful and calm and sing His praises as we stand against evil. It\u2019s all part of the same fight. It\u2019s all part of the process. We don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s all part of the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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