There are times in life where everything falls into place. Nothing changes. Yet at the same time everything does. It comes suddenly, unexpectedly. You could be riding the bus to work or having dinner with friends when WHAM!!! the realization that everything you have been waiting on, all the work all the patience, has suddenly paid off.
I remember back roughly 2 years ago when I encountered God in a more powerful and intimate way than I had ever done before. I believe I had accepted the free gift of salvation prior to this, but I hadn't truly given my life to him until this point. I quit my band, which, if you knew me at all during this timeframe you knew that was where the fullness of my identity lied, in music. A couple months later, at the leading of the Holy Spirit, I quit my jobs. A couple months later after some intense times of prayer and worship, I was off on my journey of faith, headed to Nashville Tennessee. In order to go, I gave up everything of value I had at the time: my hope of a music career, my relationship with my family, my music equipment, my vehicle, everything I had, he required of me.
December of 2013, me and Ben Miller headed out of town to go to a music festival in Iowa where I was scheduled to speak. The morning we left I looked at Ben and said something to the affect of, "You know if we do this, everything changes and we can never come back." I was speaking metaphorically of course but little did I know how literal that statement would become. We headed off and had a car that shouldn't have been taken out of town much less out of state. And we only had $30 cash to our names between the two of us. We left without even enough gas money to get where we intended to go. But we had faith. Unshakeable faith.
One thing after another, miraculously and right on time, God provided all we needed. We not only got to Iowa for me to speak at the small music festival which ironically was called Leap of Faith, we made it on to our next assignment in Nashville. I can still remember that first night driving down into the city on highway 65. As you start to come into the city, you come down a hill. As you come over the crest of the hill and make the descent into the city you see the beautiful skyline. It's gorgeous at night. One of the most beautiful sights in the world, to me at least. I knew the moment my eyes beheld that beautiful skyline that I was home. And not only was I home, but this would always be home.
Tonight I made that drive again. What started out being an awesome night with my roommate Jono and myself heading to our friends David and Vicki's house turned into a night I will never forget. I don't know if it hit me while I was eating desert, or maybe it was on the ride home, I'll never be sure of the exact moment. But at some point tonight, everything froze as I realized everything was about to change. Everything had changed.
I gave up everything when I left Wisconsin, and it's always been worth it. But tonight in the presence of even more world changers I realized that everyone in my life, everyone close to me is royalty. As I thought about that a bit more, I realized that royalty hangs out with royalty. And if I'm looking around and all I see is royalty, then I must be royalty too. Everything made sense. Everything I am called to do, I am positioned for. I have the most amazing people in my life. Not just the ones I mentioned tonight.
I am home. Everything is about to change. Everything has changed. I was the first one to realize it. Now everyone around me will start to realize it as the things that have been prepared start to happen in bigger and more amazing ways. But as my destiny unfolds and all things I'm dreaming about begin to come to pass, I realize I have more than I could ever have dreamed for. Living life with people who are kings and queens.
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