Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer
Words are powerful.
They have the ability to harm or heal.
Inspire or infuriate.
Comfort or kill.
But we must never be afraid to use them for the truth.
Fear is afraid of the truth, so it tries to make us afraid too.
“Speak the truth in love,” we are told.
That does not mean that people will always like what we say, or what they think we said.
“The times, they are a-changin’,” sang Bob Dylan.
Those words rang true.
“If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
Again, truth, touted by some, proved by many.
But “there is no fear in love, for perfect love casts out fear.”
Cowards fear the truth because the truth is stronger.
We saw that played out this week at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, when a young fearless man named Charlie Kirk was murdered.
When people die for what they believe, we call them martyrs. They would not want others to shrink back in fear but follow their lead and stand boldly. Speak boldly. Live boldly—in love.
In a letter written to a young man like Charlie, an old man warned:
In the last days, perilous times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves,
Lovers of money,
boasters, proud,
blasphemers,
disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy, unloving,
unforgiving, slanderers,
without self-control, brutal,
despisers of good, traitors,
headstrong, haughty,
lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God … (2 Timothy 3:1-4)
Does that not describe our world today, the world that Charlie Kirk saw out there and wanted to speak to?
We can’t say we haven’t been warned about what will happen in our country, our communities. The warning is right there in black and white, written in a book few people read but Charlie did, and he believed it.
Those who feared and hated Jesus wanted him crucified because of what He said.
Those who feared and hated Charlie Kirk—and others like him around the world whose names we don’t know—wanted him dead because of what he said. But he fulfilled his ministry. So did Jesus.
Evil continues but it will not win. Charlie did not lose, because he followed truth. Jesus is the Truth. And the Truth lives on.
Jesus invites us into life, not death, and He will soon return to set things right.
In the meantime, someone else, hopefully many someones, will pick up the blood-stained words of truth and speak them with boldness.
“The words that I speak to you are spirit,
and they are life”
(John 6:63).
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NOTE: As a former teacher I beg you, limit the time that you, your children, or your grandchildren spend on social media. It has the power to influence, radicalize, and isolate, and one “who isolates himself seeks his own desire; he rages against all wise judgment” (Proverbs 18:1).
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Well said, Davalynn! Many times in the last few days I have thought of the similarities between Jesus and Charlie Kirk. The willingness to engage anyone in conversation, the ability to teach, the belief in words being powerful and faith and family being so important. Their courage to speak their beliefs has taken each of them away from this world and taken them to their Father.