Destined to demonstrate the two commandments given to him by Jesus Christ:
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your soul, and with all your strength.”
Mt 22:37
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Mt: 22:39
What or who motivated Charlie Kirk to obey those commandments to the letter?
From the personal accounts of those closest to Charlie, I learned that he was a man who made decisions that allowed him to live life to the fullest. He excelled physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. evidenced by his leadership in sports, education, and politics. Every one of us experience our lives uniquely. We only have words for the senses we have in common, but we can never actually describe our unique experience verbally. From the moment we are born, we have our own unique sense of reality, which is then augmented through exploration and discovery. We all take our given potential to continue to learn by discovery and exploration, and then make crucial decisions as to what and who to be influenced by. Most of those influences bring us artificial boundaries, undue burdens, and deceptive authority to our natural learning process-spontaneous self initiated inquiry. Charlie came up with the same crucial questions that we all did at one time:
How did I happen?
How did existence come into existence?
Where do I find absolute truth?
Who am I?
Who should I be?
Most of us allow ourselves to be influenced by our parents, and all the human ‘experts’ and borrow their answers until something occurs to prove them wrong. For Charlie, that was simply not good enough! He had to find truth through natural inquiry as did the great historical philosophers, through a salient understanding of world and American history, not from tailored textbook curriculums, but by researching historical documents. The expert humans were no more infallible than he was. Charlie actually found those logical and reasonable answers in the Bible. Having accepted Jesus Christ in the 5th grade, Charlie made the crucial decision to obey His two commandments totally and absolutely. He became eventually became sensitive to the differences between what he was learning through honest inquiry and those that were totally reliant upon their formal education. He realized that the claims and conclusions made by his peers were not logical. They were borrowed emotional persuasions, not personal conclusions. Charlie could have, like many of us, talked about, complained about, criticized his peers, possibly through some digital forum. But that was not possible with Charlie. He had come to recognize the college students as his peers, his ‘neighbors’, and actually wanted them to feel the joy, the excitement, and the true freedom of thought that comes with loving God with all your mind. He saw how they were being lied to simply for a vote. He saw how they were unloved, confused, angry as a result of their misguided perception of reality. They simply were not enjoying their college years, not living life to the fullest, and headed for disastrous life experiences of broken relationships, fear of raising a family, and a fear of breaking from the crowd and standing up for their real values.
The difference with Charlie is that he recognized the reasonable and logical choice to love and obey God and to act on His two commandments with all that he had been given, based on his absolute belief in Jesus Christ! He realized that there could be no solution to our country’s problems without our warriors’ belief in Christ. He knew that the United States had always prevailed through internal and external challenges, but always with an absolute faith in Jesus Christ. Charlie’s mission began with prayer and continued with humility, respect, and love. The reason he made such an impact on the young people around the world is that most of us are simply not doing this. Here in the US, our conservative culture needs to include a tremendous spiritual revival that motivates and compels our young people to an absolute belief in Jesus Christ!
The next spiritual battlefield will be between our young people and their local governance. Hopefully, they will be compelled to stand up and question, debate, and create dialogue with their adversaries, to vote and petition their local student councils, their town councils, their county commissioners, and their state legislatures to do more to protect genuine free speech as the primary way to curb political and religious violence. This will require a surge of learning and the under performed exercise of participating in local government.