The 2-time Main League Baseball Gold Glove winner talks about his Christian religion and the way it modified his life.
Arizona's Nick Ahmed, who received Gold Gloves in 2018 and 2019 for his excellent efficiency, mentioned a religious turning level in his life got here throughout a minor league recreation practically a decade in the past after he was traded from the Atlanta Braves to the Diamondbacks.
“In 2013, I used to be battling lots of various things in my life at the moment. I used to be in a long-distance relationship with my spouse, who was my fiancee on the time,” Ahmed says in a brand new I used to be as soon as video produced by Sports activities Spectrum.
“[I] struggled to combine into the brand new group – I had simply been traded. And I fought. I confronted failure on the sector like by no means earlier than,” he says. All these occasions form of led as much as this one second.”
Ahmed turned a Christian throughout a minor league baseball recreation in Cell, Alaska, he says.
“It's a brilliant sizzling evening in Cell, Alaska on the finish of Might. And I went out to the sector that evening for a recreation. I simply completed my second hit,” he says.
Sometimes, Ahmed would heat as much as his defensive place by taking two or three floor balls between innings.
“And I didn't try this for some motive. I circled and confronted the forecourt. And I simply closed my eyes and prayed,” he says. “And that's after I requested God to return into my life and save me, and I simply mentioned, 'God, I surrender. I'm going to stay in line with you,' and I requested Jesus into my coronary heart.” I felt the Holy Spirit come into me, wash over me, and provides me a chunk that I by no means had earlier than—and I carry it with me to today.”
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Michael Foust has coated the intersection of religion and information for 20 years. His tales have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity As we speak, The Christian Publish, Leaf-Chronicle, Toronto Star and Knoxville Information-Sentinel.
