Scale Up Your Value With These 3 Qualities

“There’s a young boy here with five barley loaves and two fish. But what good is that with this huge crowd?” John 6:9 NLT

It is easy to feel that you have nothing to offer when faced with a new opportunity, a different audience or a unique situation that demands more than what you’re used to. Sometimes you’d look at your qualifications and probably feel the need to add one more certification or degree so that you level up. But that may not be what you need.

In a crowd of thousands of people, with 5,000 men alone, a small bowl of five loaves of bread and two fish is insignificant. It doesn’t match up. There is no way that a small bowl of value will serve this new audience.

But in the hands of the right person, that seemingly small value can work wonders. Who is the right person?

Someone with the right mindset

To the disciples, the value was insignificant. To Christ, it was just what He needed to serve the audience. To believe that it could meet the needs of those around required Him to see the small bowl for what it could become, not what it was.

Someone with a heart of gratitude

You only show gratitude for something you believe is worth it. Gratitude is a multiplying factor that opens you up to greater opportunities. By being grateful for where you are and what you have no matter how small it looks to you, a new door starts to open.

Someone ready to take action

If all Christ did was to give thanks for the small bowl of food without sharing it, the multitude still wouldn’t have eaten. Since gratitude had opened a new door for him, the action he knew had to take was to distribute the food.

Value doesn’t disappear it grows. As He offered value to the first person, what He had in hand didn’t diminish but was replenished. The same thing happened as it was distributed to the second and third and so on.

The lesson here is this: If what you have is enough to serve one person, then it’s enough to serve 5,000 people and more. As you take action and implement, you don’t diminish in skill or knowledge. Instead, you grow smarter, faster and better. Like the small bowl of bread and fish, you keep scaling up to meet the demands until you decide to stop.

You can bag more degrees and experiences along the way, but remember that you must never look down on the value you carry so that you can benefit from its multiplying power.