“Be honest in your estimate of yourselves, measuring your value by how much faith God has given you”

I’ve been having lots of conversations over the past few weeks about the current state of venture and angel investing and how those companies that are good, profitable and viable, but because they will never grow to be $100MM in revenue or beyond, can’t find investment money.  It’s bothered me because it might well be that these small tech companies (profitable and with $5MM – $20MM in revenue) may well be the small businesses of tomorrow, like local hardware stores, restaurants, dry cleaners were the small businesses of yesterday.  I find this exciting as it means that every Main Street in America could have their own Silicon Alley.  But, we have to find a way to value and find investments for these smaller ventures that will never go public or get bought out by the larger company that is looking for big acquisitions. There has to be a model that values the long term, small and steady growth companies if we want to create lots of long-lasting jobs and support small private business owners.  If you are a venture investor, angel investor, or small business owner reading this, I’d be interested in your thoughts on how to solve the problem.

As believers, we can think of our own spiritual lives as individual, long-lasting, growth oriented spiritual ventures.  Our ministries are likely with those we work with daily as we work in the secular world.  We may wonder at times if our contributions to kingdom expansion are significant enough for God to care or take notice.  That is one thing we should never be concerned with, as God values us each individually and tells us that in Romans as we are to measure ourselves by our amount of faith.  God is the greatest of all people investors.  He accepts us where we are and values us way beyond what we are truly worth!  And, he takes an eternal view for us.  As we go into this day, let’s think about how we can lift Him up through our example and giving glory to Him for what we have and what we do.  That is, after all, our purposed worKING!

Reference:  Romans 12:3 (New Living Translation)