Erika Kirk Tells Megyn Kelly Why She's not Angry at God after Husband's Murder
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By Milton Quintanilla, Crosswalk.com
Erika Kirk, the widow of later conservative activist and Turning Point USA cofounder Charlie Kirk, recently shared that she has no anger toward God despite her husband’s assassination.
“And if I had any amount of anger in my heart and spirit, the Lord would not be able to use me,” Kirk told commentator Megyn Kelly, who asked her if she was angry at God during the last stop of Kelly’s tour, Church Leaders reported.
“And every single day, just how Charlie did, [he] stood on stage, he would say, ‘Here I am, Lord, use me.’ And if I had that anger in my heart, that foothold from the enemy, [God] wouldn’t be able to.”
Kelly, on the other hand, acknowledged that she felt angry at God, something she previously expressed during an interview with Dr. Frank Turk, a Christian apologist and close friend of Charlie Kirk.
“How do you make sense of that?” Kelly asked. “And do you have any anger when you think about it, towards the Lord, but in general?”
“The enemy would love for me to be angry,” Kirk answered. “He would love it. He would love it because it would distract me from building what Charlie entrusted to me: raising our babies, Turning Point, being there for the team, being there for what the future holds.”
Kirk was fatally shot on September 10 this year by 22-year-old Tyler Robinson while speaking on stage at Utah Valley University for TPUSA's "The American Comeback Tour."
Erika Kirk was later appointed Turning Point USA CEO and Chair of the Board following a unanimous vote from the organization. Kirk also went viral for stating that she forgives her husband’s killer.
"My husband Charlie he wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life...On the cross, our savior said, 'Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.' That young man. I forgive him," she said during her husband’s memorial service.
Commenting on the event, Kelly said, “That’s the most powerful, strongest thing I’ve ever seen anybody do in my life.”
“I thought…I could never do it. I could never do it,” she said. “And somebody said to me, ‘Forgiveness is an action, not an emotion.’”
“And I was like, ok, that’s getting me closer to feeling like I could do it if I don’t actually have to feel loving in my heart toward the person,” Kelly said. “If you could say something to [the alleged murderer], if you could…say something to his parents, what would it be? Would it be anger? Would it be sympathy? What would it be?”
“It’s a good question,” said Kirk. “It wouldn’t be sympathy. It wouldn’t be anger.”
She added, “How do you put this? Anything that I could ever wish upon him or that family would pale in comparison of the justice of God. And so I would look at them almost like, I’m so glad I’m not you.”
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Milton Quintanilla is a freelance writer and content creator. He is a contributing writer for CrosswalkHeadlines and the host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast devoted to sound doctrine and biblical truth. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary.
