Faithwire
  • Watch
  • Go!
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Contact Us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • SCOTUS
  • Life
  • Religious Liberty
  • News
  • Politics
  • Faith
  • Opinion

The ‘Come to Jesus’ Moment That Led an NFL Star to Quit in His Prime and Become a Farmer

Image: NRATV/Screenshot
Image: NRATV/Screenshot
Share Tweet
By Dan Andros
Managing Editor

March 18, 2019

Jason Brown was on top of the NFL world. He was, at the time, the highest paid center in NFL history after signing a $37.5 million dollar contract.

He had everything – the mansion, the status, the power to do anything he wanted. Having achieved seemingly everything, Brown still felt empty inside.

“We were living the lifestyle. When I got to the top of the mountain, we were lonely,” Brown said in a recent episode of Oliver North’s American Heroes. “I had bought into the idea that money could buy you happiness. I thought I was special, just like everyone else thinks they’re special. I was no different. I was gaining the world, and losing my soul.”

He calls his 27th birthday a turning point in his life. He woke up and says he should’ve been happy, but was really struggling inside.

“I wasn’t happy about what I saw in the mirror because 27 was the same age that Lunsford (his brother) was when he was slain in service,” Brown explained. “I began to measure up my life and everything I had accomplished over 27 years in contrast with Lunsford’s life. There was no comparison. He had lived a life of service, while I was living a life of selfishness and entertainment.”

Brown’s brother Lunsford had been killed in action while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom back in 2003.

“The kicker was when I looked in the mirror… and I saw his reflection looking right back at me, and he asked, ‘what are you doing with your life Jason that’s so great? What are you doing with your life that’s so special?’ And I couldn’t answer. And in the first time in a long time, my heart was wide open. All of those seeds from my youth that had fallen on rocky soil – about love and loving thy neighbor and being selfless. All of a sudden they began to take root and germinate.”

The light bulb went off. He knew his priorities were out of order and something had to be done. “I went to my wife and I said ‘we’ve got it all wrong. We’ve got to get back to faith and family first.”

But they weren’t exactly sure how to do that. “God was preparing me for something greater, but I had no idea what it was,” Brown said.

In a moving interview with Col. North, Brown explains how the next several months and years unfolded and it’s a beautiful testimony of what God will do when we just listen and follow what He’s telling us to do.

A beautiful lesson for us all to follow. We may not always be able to see what He has planned, but if we simply read His Word, listen, and trust – God will do the rest.

Amazing things happen when we are faithful and follow – Jason Brown and his family are living proof.

Latest

  • Entertainment

    Disney Reportedly Offering Johnny Depp Stunning Payday to Return to ‘Pirates’ Franchise

  • culture

    ‘It Started with the Removal of God’: How Atheist-Socialists Have Fought America from Within

  • Faith

    Dispelling SCOTUS Myths Surrounding Roe, and Why It Was Never Good Law: ‘Simply Not a Constitutional Issue’

  • culture

    ‘God, What Have I Done?’: Man Suing Health Care Provider Over Trans Surgery, Says ‘Avalanche’ of De-Transitioners Coming

  • Entertainment

    ‘I Need to Be Fully Present’: Christian CNN Anchor’s Tearful On-Air Goodbye as She Leaves Job to Put Her Kids, Husband First


Navigation

  • Watch
  • Go!
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Contact Us
  • Staff
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram

Subscribe to the Newsletter

Sign up to get our newsletter your inbox every day.

Newsletter Signup

Do you want to read
more articles like this?