It was one of the early Church Fathers who lsaid that, I always thought Athanasius but someone recently attributed it to Tertullian so now I'm not sure. Anywauy I'm more and more convinced that the death of Charlie Kirk is God's plan for something very big both for His Church and for the country, and prhaps the world.
Unless a seed fall to the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die it will bear much fruit.
I think I did a better job o quoting that this time than I did a few posts below. Yes, I was thinking then that this was probably God's plan, that He took Charlie;s life so that soeme great , very great, fruition of Christianity in this country coul;d come about.
And yes, I am more and more sure of that as time goes on. I've now heard two others mention that this could be revival, oh that wonderful vreivvial that has eleuded us for decades though so many of us have prayed our hearts out for it. Yes yes yes, oh may it have come.
That it would take a great sacrifice to bring it about would not have occurred to me, and I think it has taken all of us by surprise. Those who do think this is God's plan.
As I say in my previous post about Charlie Kirk I didn't have much of an idea about him except that he was a young conservative who debated college kids and spoke openly of his cChristian faith, a very nice combination to discover in a young guy so I has happy to know we had him working for our causes. But what I had NO idea about has only been developing since his death, that he was a much bigger personality than I had any idea. Recognized as a great man even when he was very young, for instance as destined to be President, reocgnized by many as having that kind of greatness hin him. I had no idea. And he was not just the acquaintance of but the close friend of many movers and shakers from the President and Vice President to a whole slew of talk show hosts and politicians and pastors, as well as popular with the thousands of young people he talked to on the college campuses, havingconverted quite a few of them to his political views. And, it turns out his Christianity as well. I keep hearing that the churches have been packed since his death with young people, annany of whom had never been to church before. Some spoke to news people of wanting to change their lives for the better in the model of Charlie, to be better men, hysbands and fathers.
Some described the scene at the Phoenix Arizona headquarters of Charlie's organization, Turning POInt, as reminiscent of the outpouring of love for Princess diana of Britain when she died, a huge array of teeddy bears and balloons and flowers and messages. I had NO idea Charlie was that big in our world.
ASome of it hs grown up dsince his death as many have been discovering him who never heard of him before, but still those who did know of him and follow him are a much larger crowd than I had any idea. This event to honor him that is planned for Sunday is to be held in a stadium that holds 73 thousand people.
This seed that has fallen to the ground is one huge expensive seed, a truly great human being who had accomplished a prodigious lot in his short life. A big man in the ture meaning of the word. And as a big man whe will be a big seed for a giganitic outpouring, that fruitful result of the death of the seed and the blood of the martyrs. On a great scale. Because he was big, so much bigger than I had any idea.
A few days ago I got into looking up the meaning of names, since I like all kinds of symbolism, and I found out that the name Charles means Man, or Manly. I already knew that the name Kirk is sScottish for Church. Many and Church. Wowo, how appropriate for Charlie Kirk. And then I looked up Eric, because his wife ahds the feminine fversion of that name, Erica, and it means Honoirable Ruler. I'd already had the idea that she was going to become a big part of the organization now, based on her inspiring speech of Friday night, and then this morning she was voted by the Turning POint staff to be their new CEWO. They all said she would carry the persona of Charlie as well as his mission more recognizably to the public than any of the other memebers of his staff, and besides, he'd told them that it was his wish that shee succeed him if something like this ever happened.
Wonderful things going on. We've been sliding father and father into the darkness for soi many years it's been hard to beliee that we could ever get out of it. But God knows how to do the impossible. We would never have thought of any of this, but God, God knows hw to do things we can't even deream of. Things we couldn't descire either? The death of a great man like Charlie? We couldn't dream that. We wouldn't. Bug God knows what He is doing. All things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purposes.
Praise You Lord, praise You and thank You. I know it is no time for us to get complacent. It's time to work harder than ever, pray harder than ever, seek Your will in everythig we do. Help us to stauy on Track, Lord.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000Especially watch over Erica and Turning POInt.
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