Charlie Daniels Dies

Charlie Daniels Dies

I woke up to the news that Charlie Daniels died yesterday from a hemorrhagic stroke at 83 years old.

You might think it is funny that a pastor enjoyed Charlie Daniels. However, he was incredible on the strings. I didn’t listen to him every day, every week, or even every month, but I did enjoy catching him when I did. Over the past handful of years late in his life, I saw him play in a few events in the Ozarks. I especially enjoyed his gospel music.

His Twitter feed fascinated me. At the bottom of today’s post, I share his two final verses that he shared on Twitter before his death – and these are the purpose of my post.

Today I can’t write to describe a personal relationship with him, all about his character, or commend parts of his lifestyle. He was course in some of his lyrics and used profanity often; I certainly do not applaud those parts of his lifestyle. As someone who claimed a relationship with God, these were glaring inconsistencies. Among a few things I might commend is this, in the world of entertainment, he was married for almost 60 years to Hazel, his hometown wife of his youth. He was vocal about his relationship with God. As a fellow American, he was certainly patriotic.

Back to Twitter. Every day – like his last before the stroke – he would share a morning prayer, remind people of the murder of abortionists, exhort people of the need to pray for the blue, and remind people that 22 veterans die from suicide every day, among other reminders. Few people in a politically correct world stand up for babies every day, stand up for the blue, and show concern for veterans. These things I appreciated.

These are the final two verses he shared on Twitter before his death.

And…

On the day he died, he tweeted: “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans-8”

He learned just how true that verse was yesterday.

Here he plays the national anthem in Israel and performs his familiar rendition of “I’ll Fly Away.” He did.

He says at the end, “One of these mornings…” Yesterday was that day. Not because he was popular, rich, or anything else, but because God is faithful and death cannot separate us from the love of Christ.