The Thing That Motivates Me The Most

The Players' Testimony.com ^ | 01/02/2019 | Jamie Mosley

[petitfour]

Growing up, my parents, brother and I went to church every Sunday. Maybe it goes without saying but, as a kid, I wasn’t going to church for myself; I was going to church because that’s just what we did on Sundays. I didn’t know any different.

From an early age, I always knew about God and Jesus. I suppose by taking my brother and I to church each week, my parents made sure of that. But, despite great church attendance, I didn’t know what it meant to be a Christian or have a relationship with God. I guess you could say I was going through the motions.

Thankfully, the Lord was working on me early. Everytime I stepped foot in the church, whether it was for Sunday School or something else, I knew there was a reason for me to be there. I was convicted; I knew something was missing. Yet, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. That is, until ninth or tenth grade, when all of a sudden something clicked.

I remember it clearly. One particular Sunday, which happened to be a youth day, the pastor said, “There will come a day and a time when your parents won’t be able to vouch for you kids, and you’re going to have to stop playing church and come to know Jesus for yourself.”

When he said that, I was like, “Whoa, I think he’s talking directly to me.”

I felt like the only one in the room. Today, I know that it was the Lord was tugging on my heart because, then and there, I decided I really needed to see what living my life for Christ looked like. It wasn’t until later, though, that I truly understood what it meant to live sold out for God.

[petitfour]

I only posted an excerpt. I cut and pasted, but there's a picture in the middle of the article, so I clipped it where the photo is. If you don't wanna click the link to read the rest, don't click it. :-)

Jamie sounds like a fine young man.

[petitfour]

Do you have a Bama ping list? This is Jamie Mosley’s “testimony.” He sounds like a fine young man.

[GOP Poet]

Thanks for the post :D

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[petitfour]

You’re welcome. I saw it on someone’s twitter and looked at it out of curiosity. It’s well written and not what you would expect to hear from a linebacker from Theodore High School in Mobile, AL. :-)

[lgjhn23]

Yep. I remember going thru a similar thing. I remember those days well. We had a family church pew with a specific seating order...LOL. Everything was closed on Sunday...I mean EVERYTHING, including gas stations. I remember many a Saturday evening as a little fella riding with my Dad to go get that old, beat-up, 1950 Plymouth filled up with gas. That usually meant a candy bar or maybe even a soda pop for me.
I really “burned out” on “going to church” in my late teens and by the time I was graduating from high school, I quietly vowed to myself that my shadow would never cross another church doorstep ever again....and I went on to live like it, too. I was more interested in Led Zeppelin, Hendricks, etc. than any kind of “high church” music. But God had other plans for me. It took awhile until I hit “the rock bottom of the barrel”, so to speak, in my life. Once I hit bottom, I came to know His Son as Lord & Savior in a personal way.
Now, at 68 years old, I often think about/look back on all of that, and I give thanks that my parents tried their very best to do all of us kids right even though we were poor as paupers. Yep, the times sure have changed...and, IMHO, not everything is necessarily for the better.

[petitfour]

Thanks for sharing your story. :-)

[petitfour]

It’s Jamey. Not Jamie.

[blam]

"Do you have a Bama ping list? This is Jamie Mosley’s “testimony.” He sounds like a fine young man."

Sorry, no ping list.

Jamie and I graduated from the same HS, albeit, 57 years apart.
His brother CJ Moseley, is in the NFL.

[petitfour]

CJ was at my son’s high school graduation a few years ago. I have a picture of my son, and CJ is right behind him. I took the picture that way on purpose, angling around to get my son as he passed in front of CJ. Then I asked CJ to take a picture with one of my daughters. It was pretty cool. I went searching for those pictures yesterday to see if Jamey was in any of them, but he wasn’t. We used to run into Bama players every now and again when we lived in Mobile. They’re just regular folks working hard to make better lives for them and their families. :-)