The Miraculous Ripple Effect of Charlie Kirk’s Life

When Charlie Kirk was shot Wednesday, there was no mistaking his condition was dire. Like so many across the nation, I prayed for a miracle. We had a miracle in Butler, Pennsylvania. We had a miracle at President Donald Trump’s Florida golf course. We had a miracle when House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., somehow survived getting shot while practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. Lord, please give us another one.

Given the persistent, venomous rhetoric from the Left, given a survey out just two days ago indicating 34% of college students believed using violence to stop a campus speech is acceptable, given the majority of self-described liberals admit they find political violence acceptable, given what Mollie Hemingway calls the incessant “assassination prep” by the media and Democrat leaders, Wednesday’s outcome on a Utah college campus was inevitable. At some point, we were going to lose a national figure.

When the president confirmed the awful news that Kirk has passed, my first thought was: “We’ve run out of miracles.”

However, as the sun rose, and stories mounted of Kirk’s deep and abiding faith in Christ, that soft, still voice spoke out: “No, you haven’t.”

Jesus Christ did more than defeat death. He changed the math in life. He broke a couple pieces of bread and fed the multitudes. He told his disciples, “Whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these” (John 14:12). But for a brief time in Egypt as a child, He never left the Promised Land, but His followers, measuring in the hundreds of millions, live and serve to the corners of the earth.

Walking in the garden shortly after Kirk’s assassination, out of nowhere came a line: “a thousand will rise.” It’s the math of the Kingdom. Kirk has been struck down, but because of his tireless work and inspirational life, countless who caught Kirk’s vision will step up into the gap. Brave and cheerful warriors who will bring the conservative message to students in high schools and universities and beyond.

A “thousand will rise” may be too low.

Turning Point USA has over 3,500 chapters at high school and college campuses. If only one person at each—and that’s no stretch—steps up into local or national leadership, that’s 3,500 “Charlie Kirks” impacting the nation.

3,500 may be too low.

As one user on X noted, in the past two years, there’s been a 44-point swing in support among young men for the Republican Party.

Is that all the work of Charlie Kirk? No, but enough of it is to safely say that because of Kirk millions more now stand for conservative values, stand up for America. Stand up for family.

Which gets to another point: His generational impact isn’t just on politics and policy. It’ll also be felt on marriage and children. Kirk, himself the joyously married father of two, pressed equally hard on those he spoke to the importance of getting married and having kids.

Again, we’re talking about the miraculous math of the Kingdom. How many young men will follow his lead, not to serve a political movement, but to start a traditional family? The societal and national benefits of healthy, two-parent households loaded with children outweigh any law or policy. Those decisions will multiply through the generations.

All through the day Wednesday, leftists on social media and certain cable channels mocked and celebrated the execution of Charlie Kirk. The display was sickening and infuriating, and I confess the worst angels of my nature are happy that some of those in positions of authority find themselves out of work this morning. Learn to code, Matthew Dowd, formerly of MSNBC.

But I can’t go there. We can’t go there. Instead, we must turn to our better angels on this easy-to-be-bitter morning. We must, with grace, recall that the devil also celebrated on Good Friday. And then came Sunday.

And we can smile, knowing Charlie Kirk is with his Lord, and that by the miraculous math of the Kingdom his work will multiply many, many, many times over to the great blessing of this nation.

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