Last night, I was sitting in my office at home, catching up on some reading. My son, Titus, came in to talk to me. He’s five. He was going on about something he found on a website or some game he played online. It was entertaining to listen to him and watch his excitement.

After that conversation was over, I simply stated, “Titus, you’re getting too big. I want you to stop growing.”

With his arms flung wide, he replied, “I can’t stop! God’s making me grow! I can’t stop what God is doing!” There was a ton of excitement and passion in his voice as he made that exclamation.

There’s a truth there if we have the eyes to see it. Who am I to stand in the way of God moving? Whether it’s causing a child to grow, like Titus. Or it’s causing me to grow. Or my church. Or the kingdom.

I can’t stop what God is doing. My responsibility is to align myself with His will and allow Him to work in me and through me.

How is it, then, that I get so wrapped up in what I’m doing, in what I want, in what is going on in my life? How is it, then, that I seek sometimes, it seems, to squelch what God is doing and elevate my own agenda to the top of the list?

I can’t stop what God is doing. Nor should I want to stop what God is doing. Rather, I should display some excitement and passion in my life about what He is doing. And about the fact that He has chosen me to be a part of it.

Thanks, Titus, for teaching me more about God and my faith. It’s amazing, the deep faith lessons one can learn from a five year old…