MADE TO BE GREAT 10: NO SMALL THINKING

Some years ago, I called one of my beloved ones working in the ministry office to get me a sachet of milk. I handed over a thousand naira to him. He came back with the tiniest sachet of milk and plenty of change. 

I was shocked. I needed the bigger size that cost almost a thousand naira then. He also said he was equally shocked and said he kept wondering why I gave him a thousand naira for a small sachet of milk. 

He said it did not even occur to him that it was the bigger size. He had been used to buying the smallest sizes for many years. It was a mental shift for him that day. 

Beloved, you will always shrink opportunities to the size of your mind. A small mind cannot birth big things. 

When the Bible says “Be fruitful”, it was meant to encompass all dimensions of a man’s life. 

• You should have a fruitful spirit. Walk in love. Draw with joy. Line at peace with all men. Be patient in your dealings. Show kindness. Exercise self-control and others. 

• You have a fruitful body. There is the fruit of the body. This has to do with biological children. 

• We seem to forget that there is the fruit of the mind. Have you heard about the word “Brainchild” before? Your mind is meant to birth things. 

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It was someone’s mind that birthed the airplane. The telephone was someone’s brainchild. The internet was someone’s brainchild. 

We must bear the fruit of the spirit. We must bear that of the body also. However, we cannot afford to underrate the fruit of the mind. It is the key to innovation and transformation. It takes a fruitful mind to bring a chair out of a tree. 

You cannot be great when you are lost in the world of small thinking. That was the error of the ten spies. They demeaned themselves because of their small mind: 

And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

Numbers 13:32‭-‬33 NKJV

Their perceived status led them to small-mindedness. They said, “We are not able”.

But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”

Numbers 13:31 NKJV

But as for Caleb who had an exceptional mind, his thought was different. His mind captured the victory. He told the people, “We are well able” 

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”

Numbers 13:30 NKJV 

What is the size of your mind? Broaden your scope. It will help even your faith. 

temilOluwa Ola, Eruwa