“I just broke down crying. I mean, I hadn’t cried in so long…I was in so many tears,” he shared. “I’m journaling in my book, I’m like, ‘Yo, this’—it was just a different type of emotion. Then from there that fire was lit.”
Reed said he began to “understand who this Jesus guy was” and started “building a relationship.”
He said that Jesus “helped me with the way I walk, the way I talk, the way I act, the way I treat people, [and] learning how to really serve.”
Stressing the importance of not forgetting how athletes are blessed by God, Reed said, “I feel like there’s so many times as an athlete every day, we can just get caught up in what coach is saying, the schoolwork, practice, and we forget and we just put God on the back burner.”
“I feel like he’s just calling for each and every one of us. He just changed my life. Once you just really go out and build a relationship with him, it just helps you so much in your field of whatever sport you’re doing,” he said. “I mean, it just helps you go out there and just like play free.”
Reed also shared that High Point’s Chase Johnston’s faith challenged him. Reed said:
[Johnston] told me he was so detached from winning or losing; he just focused on what can I do to proclaim the gospel. “What can I do to go out here and just—my life, this act of playing basketball is worship. I can go out there and give it all I got and detach from winning or losing, because I know if I give it all I got, I’m in the palm of God’s hands and he’ll take care of the rest.”
“I feel like we’re all in the palm of God’s hands right now. He brought us here for a reason, we’re doing this for a reason, we’re here in this exact moment for a reason,” Reed said. “So, enjoy the moment, enjoy the process, enjoy the journey. He changed my life, and I want him to change and touch everybody’s lives in here.”
