Kirk Cameron Shares His Redemption Story: ‘Compassion and…Love’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Actor and author Kirk Cameron shared a heartfelt story of his redemption on social media.
“What are the chances that a young teenage actor in Hollywood surrounded by that whole moral meat grinder comes out the other end feeling thankful for his life, guilty for my selfishness and pride, turning toward the one who’s been kind and gracious to me, believing in the one that I used to mock,” Cameron began. “Then wanting to be faithful to my wife and understanding that everything I’ve got is a gift from God and He’s just been so kind and so merciful.”
“I recognize that which is also a gift to me that I’m even aware of it,” he continued. “That’s not like me. That’s like God to open my eyes, and I’m so thankful for that. I can’t explain that whole story any other way than there is a very real God in heaven who showed me my need for him and instituted a rescue plan and saved and changed me on the inside by a very real power and that power is the power of love, divine love.”
Cameron then pulled out his Bible and began to recite The Shema found in Deuteronomy 6:4-5, which is the greatest commandment for believers.
“So you can think what you want about God,” he expressed. “You can think what you want about your capacity to love. Sometimes our spouse has a better read on how well we’re actually loving, but I think God has the best read because he made us and he is love and he says that all of us fall short of his standard of love.
“In fact, the one we’re supposed to love more than anyone else is God himself,” he added. “That’s the first and greatest commandment to love God with all of your heart all of your mind, soul and strength. He said the second commandment is like it, to love your neighbor as yourself. None of us have kept that commandment because we’ve been born, the Bible says, with a selfish nature which then leads us to willfully choose to be prideful and selfish and judgmental and unkind and hateful and lustful and resistant to authority and ungrateful and we fail to fear God and we fail to know God.”
Cameron concluded his video with the greatest story of redemption.
“But God’s word tells us that God saw our desperate condition, chosen by each one of us to turn away from God and go our own way,” he explained. “Rather than just leaving us in the hole that we’ve created for ourselves, He sees us. He has compassion and in love reaches down and pulls us out and saves us in a way that was impossible for us to do for ourselves. He institutes a rescue mission motivated by love, by sending his son to die on the cross to pay the price for our sin with his blood.”
Movieguide® previously reported on how Cameron came to faith in Jesus:
Kirk Cameron recently shared how he came to know Christ as his Savior through the hit TV show GROWING PAINS…
Intellectually, Cameron struggled to understand God. He was given the book More than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell.
“I finished the book and came out convinced that Jesus really was who he said he was,” Cameron said. “Intellectually I had to admit that I believed in God or that I had a hidden agenda to not believe in God.”
Finally, Cameron found himself in his sports car with the decision to make. He knew he didn’t have forever to wait and knew that if heaven was real, he would not be going there.
“I didn’t how to pray, but I did. It was probably the clumsiest prayer ever prayed,” Cameron reflected. “But I closed my eyes and said, ‘God, if you’re there, I want to know. If you’re real, would you please show me? Would you forgive me for the things that I’ve done that are wrong, that have been offensive to you? I don’t know anything about you, but would you show me the way and make me the person you created me to be? If you’re listening.’”
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