Conviction is what gets your attention.

Correction is what changes your direction.

It’s one thing to feel inspired by someone else’s discipline, 

It’s another thing to let that inspiration expose what needs to change in you.

That’s when proximity becomes more than motivating.

It becomes refining.

I’ve had to check my own pride.

I’ve had to rewrite my own habits.

I’ve had to upgrade my environment on purpose.

Because proximity is powerful, but it only works if you’re humble enough to let it correct you.

My life changed when God found me in that back room one night.

That day, I was drinking and smoking. Separated from my wife. Distant from my kids. Hopeless.

I was sleeping in the part of the house that wasn’t really the house. You know the kind,  where we used to smoke, drink, escape. That little back room only had a box spring, a nightstand, and an old Bible in the drawer.

And somehow, in His grace, God met me there.

That night changed everything.

From there, God in His sovereignty allowed me to be around Eddie Wesby.

I’m not sure if I’d been around someone that consistent since my dad.

Eddie took me under his wing. He brought me to Bible school with him.

And the more I went, the more I learned. The men in that room were real men, grounded, rooted, wise, and nothing like I’d ever experienced before. I felt out of my element… but at the same time, I was growing. I was learning. I was becoming.

Eddie discipled me. He walked with me.

Week after week.

And him and his wife? They took my family to and from church every Sunday until we had our own car. No excuses. No days off. Just love, service, and example.

That’s what proximity does.

It was the beginning of my walk with God.

And even now, you might’ve heard me say this before: I ask God daily to fill me with His Holy Spirit.

From there, I got everything I needed, 

Intimacy.

Wisdom.

Faith.

Perseverance.

Patience.

Everything flows from His Spirit.

Changing my proximity to God changed my proximity in life.

Who you’re around matters more than you’ll ever know.

There will be seasons where God places us in dark rooms so we can shine light, 

But there will also be seasons where we must intentionally place ourselves in rooms where we are being refined, challenged, corrected, and made better.

That’s the power of proximity.

But only if you let it change you.

God Bless The Entrepreneur®