The Journey of a Boy

Four months and one day ago, a boy set out on a journey to discover himself. He traveled to a faraway place, and left his family, friends, church, job, and previous life behind in Michigan. On that day in the early August wind, when he saw his family drive away, leaving him in the dust in Kansas City, he felt abandoned, lost, confused. He had no one. He was a boy lost among strangers, being forced to adapt to a new way of life, and questioning whether or not this was the right decision all along.

The boy found himself living with new people, five roommates, and learning a new way of life away from home. He quickly realized he could no longer rely on his mother's home cooking or the chores around the house to just take care of themselves. He grew closer to them, and had to grow up quickly to adapt to their lifestyles, and to his own new lifestyle. But it was a good change, one that he needed to wake up to and realize.

The boy found himself in a new vibrant and much larger city, where the shuffle of people's lives was a bit faster. He found himself by big buildings and hundreds of coffee shops, fountains everywhere, and shopping malls galore.

But more importantly, a little bit further away from all the Kansas City shuffle, he found a community of people where he would later find that he belonged to. He found a small prayer room, ever-growing bigger, where people truly were connected to God. He found new friends that weren't involved with the things of this world, yes, they were pure and set aside and actually knew God. They didn't put on the facade of loving God only to not live it out later and betray him. The boy connected with them and instantly made lifelong friends. It grew into late nights where only one thing mattered: Seeking out the very heart of God together and crying out in the Holy Spirit for more of God, groaning and crying over the lost loved ones, remembering their lives before they truly knew God, remembering how Christ took away the pain, the hurt, the crying, the shame, and restored them completely. They found themselves confused at first, but quickly learned and grew in the Lord, and became strong accountability partners, best friends, lovers of God, and some of them even lovers.

The boy, having had to trust in God for everything, realized there was so much more to life than the ordinary things in life. He was transformed by God's fire and glory, and changed into the person he was supposed to be all along but hadn't realized it. He had been afraid to grow up back home, unable to, with so many preventions in his own life and mind. But now he found himself among new faces, new friends, a new home, a new community, a new way of looking at life itself, and many many new ways of worshipping and praising God. And, being lifted up in all of these, the boy changed....

He grew up into a man. A young man, still learning, still searching out God, still experiencing new things every day. But now there is a difference: He knows his purpose, he knows what he was created for. He knows his occupation, his career, his lifestyle. He knows who he is, and has found his identity, his personality, and God's will for his life. The enemy has no power over him anymore, nothing to turn him back into the boy he once was, his mind has been turned completely around, in a way that can't be turned back. He knows so much more now... He knows of the terrible things to come, the awesome things to come, the new life, the old life passing away, the Kingdom.... And eternity.

The boy became a man, and the man knows his purpose: To seek the heart of God. Nothing more and nothing less, it is all defined in that alone. The praying, the interceding, the crying, the laughing, the joy, the sadness, the groaning, the pain and the anger, the suffering, the trust, the faith, and the love...... He is an intercessor, a prayer, a single thread in a tapestry of God's kingdom of people that are to be raised up in the latter days to walk in the ancient paths and cry out for the living God! He will have NOTHING less than the double portion that God has assigned to him!

The man's journey is not over, though. And who knows what will happen to him next? What new transformation will take place next? Where God will lead him? What new levels of His glory will be revealed to him? Well, that's in God's hands, and will come about in His timing.... Until then, he knows what He's been called to, and the journey continues..........