While speaking on her faith, Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk again addresses her forgiving the man who assassinated her husband, Charlie Kirk, and she says she “never questioned God,” adding that “God is good.”
During an interview with ‘Fox News Sunday‘ TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk talks about living out her faith, even after witnessing the assassination of her husband, former TPUSA CEO Charlie Kirk. In her December 28 interview with Fox, Erika recalls her viral address in which she forgave her husband’s assassin.
She said although she keeps getting the same question, she continues to “trust in the Lord.” Erika shared:
“It’s interesting because I keep getting the same question. ‘How could you forgive him? How could you forgive the man who murdered your husband?’ And the answer, to me, is just so simple. You trust in the Lord. And when you trust in the Lord, you do it. And faith is so powerful when it’s lived out. But, I don’t have this massive, in-depth answer. God is good. The world is evil. Don’t be surprised when the world acts like the world.
But, I know that the Lord will use everything. But, when you know that without a shadow of a doubt that the Lord is your refuge, the Lord is your strength, and you wake up every morning and you say, ‘God, give me the grace. Show me the direction I’m supposed to go. Use me.’ Just like Charlie said on stage two years ago here at AmFest [AmericaFest]. ‘Use me, Lord. Here I am.’ And when you surrender your life to that and that posture, everything else around you is just irrelevant, because God is so good.”
While Erika continued to open up about her relationship with God, she also talked about keeping the faith after Charlie’s death. She admitted that her conversations with God remain the same. She’s not angry at God and has “never questioned” him. She said:
“Quite frankly, [conversations] are kind of the same. I’ve never questioned, ‘Why me?’ I always knew that my life was not just to be lived for me. We’re here for such a greater purpose. And Charlie and I both knew that. And that’s why Charlie built what he built.
And I talked to God, like I said, the same way. You know, ‘God use me. God, heal my heart. You know my pain. You know the depths of my pain. Walk through this with me. Put the people in my path that will help heal me, and guide me, and direct me, and keep me in lockstep with your will.’ I don’t want anything outside of God’s will, I do not. Anything outside of the jet streams of God’s will, I do not—I will not even touch it with a 10-foot pole.
Even with Charlie, too. I’ll still talk to him. I’ll be in the kitchen, randomly, being like, ‘Babe, can you believe what happened today?’ There’s something powerful about communication and the veil is so thin, and I just know that prayer doesn’t have to be this, you know, heavy religious thing. It’s just communication with God. It’s so simple. You just talk to God.”
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