4-Year-Old Wields Ancient Secret Weapon: Faith

She knew what she was seeing had to either be wrong or there had to be a good reason why this poor shivering woman was letting this poor frozen man slide deep into the water. My daughter stopped talking and began watching intently. Her lips pierced, her chin started to quiver, she stopped breathing for a moment and her eyes began to well.

I was watching Titanic at the scene after the ship had sunk when the people were waiting for the life boats to return. Rose had realized that Jacks gone and was letting him go.

"Mom, why is she letting him go? Why is he sinking into the water?" She was still fighting tears. I expected her to start crying. Only natural as the scenes are very sad...but she didn't.

She saw something she didn't like or that didn't seem right to her and instead of convulsing with emotion, she stopped to question the situation. Then she expectantly waited for my answer, trusting that whatever I told her would be truth and work out for the good.

Inside I smiled because it was magnificent to see a 4 year old wield a weapon of faith so easily. It was like watching a well trained warrior in battle. Instead of reacting to what she saw, she stopped to question the situation.

She was walking by faith and not by sight.

As a Christian, we grow in our relationship of knowing God, His character, ways, etc...we begin to learn how to trust God. Many times we have all encountered something in our life that doesn't look right or that shouldn't be happening. Instead of completely and unnecessarily creating emotional upheaval to ourselves all the time, we should stop and question the situation.

Either what we are seeing is not reality according to God's Word or there is a plan behind it. If we simply ask God, He is faithful to give us the truth about the situation, according to His Word, so we can know how to work through it or get around it. I know if my daughter continues processing information as she did in this example, she will be able to go through life much more victoriously than without.

I answered her question, "He died, honey. He was left out in the freezing cold water too long. A lot of people died on that boat honey. It was very sad."

"But she's going to be ok, right?"

"Yes, baby, she is."

This seemed to comfort her a bit as she went back to playing. I gave her the truth that yes, Jack did die which is probably not the way she wanted that to end. Even when we ask of God, "Why," or "Explain this, I don't understand," we can trust God to give us the truth even if we don't want to hear it. In this we can also trust His plan in it.

A few nights later she said, "Mom lets watch the movie when Jack is still alive."

We never got to. The VCR had evidently gone down with the ship.