Amazing

I had class today and somehow we got onto the topic of our oldest boy, Riley. Our neighbors across the street love him to death, and Riley loves them. They are like a third set of grandparents to him. Anyway, my professor got into the discussion, and his exact statement was, "I love Riley. Riley ministers to me." This is a man who has known Jesus for over 47 years, flew a float plane over British Columbia to minister to people who were inaccessible by road, has his own Christian Counseling practice for the last 20 some years and has his Doctorate of ministry, and years ago - he was one of my deacons. It is amazing that God would use a 4 year old boy who doesn't talk to minister to somebody with that rich of a ministry background. There are many fathers who are proud of their sons' achievements in sports or school, or hunting and fishing, but I am so proud and humbled at the same time (I know it's an oxymoron, but that is how I feel) that God has chosen to use our son to minister to a seminary professor.
I wonder if this is how Samuel's parents felt when Samuel began to minister at the temple?

"For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Therefore, as it is written, "let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."
-1 Corinthians 1:26-31