Noah's Arc Reactor

              Long, boring, and tedious.  These are the words the may come to from our heads when we’re in the middle building something; houses, relationships, careers, businesses, family, finance, trust, friendships, education and etc.  No one said building or creating something would be simple.  However, it also becomes critical when people say this common term…”I GIVE UP.”  It is hard when people quit in middle of something potentially great. There are many inventions in history that haven’t seen the day of light due to inventors giving up during of trials. If there’s one person that taught me the importance perseverance while building something  is…Noah.  

Noah was man who God had warned about “The Flood”. God instructed him to build the Ark and save a remnant of life. The Lord felt Noah was “righteous in his generation” Who was Noah? Noah was definitely not a young powerful man who was professional in building ships like the Titanic.  He was just an old amateur.  Matter of fact, many historians claim Noah had drinking issues. While building the Ark, he could have easily given up.  Imagine him saying “yo my dude, why am I building this thing? I’m still gonna die anyway. Besides, I’m old and drunk.”  Instead, Noah was obedient to God while building the Ark.  Instead of listening to his critics, he just followed the directions God gave to him. The biggest tool that Noah had to build the Ark was his Faith. Sometimes, when I think of Noah, I usually think of…Iron Man?

Although he’s fictional character, but Iron Man’s story is almost similar to Noah’s Ark.  . Rich businessman Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) finds himself kidnapped by a terrorist group. After being tortured by them, Tony Stark was forced to build weapons for the terrorist to use on innocent lives.  However, instead listening to the terrorist group, he decided to build an armor suit while in severe pain. Unlike the original book, the movie showed Tony building himself device called Arc (ironically) Reactor just to keep himself from a heart injury.  At the end, he manage to escape the terrorist group and did positive things with his invention.  However, this guy could’ve easily made weapons for the terrorist or taken his own life. Instead, he took a different direction that led him to great adventures. How?

Faith.  Both the Noah story and Iron Man origin shows that Faith is something man can’t see.  Faith is something makes you move from your comfort zone. Faith is something gives you that clear picture of what you want to build and the destination you want to go. It's not a dream either.  God knew Noah and his people deserve the best in life.  Even the terrorists with guns weren’t able take away the faith Tony Stark had.

Then why do we as people give up when were in the middle of building something astonishing? Taking breaks and fresh air is needed to help us get back in the game. That is perfectly normal, but don’t quit.  Your faith is the tool that you’ll need to build your future.