“Now, when people ask me, ‘Why did this happen?’” said Turek, “I say, ‘Well, I know why it happened in general. We live in a fallen world.’ None of us are guaranteed 80, you know, pain-free years, right?”
“And if Christianity is true, people don’t really die,” he added. “They just change location. They go from this life to the next life. And it’s up to God when that happens.”
“Why did God allow Charlie to be killed? Why didn’t our prayer in the car before [the event] protect him?” Turek asked. “Well, I don’t know why, Megyn, but I know why I don’t know why. I’m inside of time. I hardly know any of the past, very little of the present. I know none of the future.”
“But maybe God allowing this to happen is going to set forth a ripple that we talked about earlier that’s going to bring many to Christ, that many people are going to come to Christ around the world,” he said. “And I mean, sometimes pain does that. Sometimes you only look up when you’re on your back.”
“I don’t know about you, but when everything’s going really great for me, I tend to forget about God,” Turek pointed out. “And so pain and suffering can wake us up.”
“C.S. Lewis famously said that pain is God’s megaphone to arouse a morally deaf world,” he said. “And a lot of times we’re deaf. Notice that we’re not deaf anymore. Notice that you and I are talking about eternal things right now.”
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“Good is going to come from this. God can redeem evil,” said Turek. “You know, there’s a passage in the second letter to the Corinthians where the Apostle Paul’s talking about suffering.”
In that passage, Paul says:
Our light and momentary afflictions are achieving for us a greater weight of glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes, not on what is seen, for what is seen is temporary. We fix our eyes on what is unseen, for what is unseen is eternal.
“And there’s a lot right now, Megyn, going on that’s eternal that we might not see, but a lot of people are coming into the kingdom now,” Turek said. “People all over the world are waking up because of this tragedy.”
