When I was a little boy, I built a boat out of paper. You know, the kind that you fold up and make of one sheet of paper. The only problem with this particular boat, and it was for a six-year-old a pretty good ideal. It was missing something, it was a boat made out of paper sailing in a mud puddle in the rain. And the idea was doomed for failure. I can’t have known how to build a boat because I wasn’t at six an engineer.
As I said, the boat was missing some critical components in the paper boat.

Maybe the paper boat was missing somethings like the masts and the boom, the trim and the sail, the rudder, the keel, the transom, and the hull vents. But I was a six-year kid trying to have some fun in the rain outside. And I noticed that the crippled vassal didn’t sailed from the start because of its conception had some problems.

• One, the boat wasn’t made of fine material wood or steel, just paper.
• Two, the boat had nothing to power it.
• Three, the boat had nothing to guide it very well. And it sailed in the rain!

The boat sat in the water and sank as it soaked up the water in the puddle. We as humans make our lives into a paper boat of such. Our soul of the mind, will, and the emotional state of our soul could be like my paper boat on the rain, doomed to sink in failure.

First, what is powering your soul’s mind? Is it filled with resentment, stress, and bitterness? Are our lives made of the paper-building material of selfishness, divisions (disputes), and party spirit (feasting in foolishness, factions, sects with peculiar opinions, and heresies)? Are we full of rivalries, envy, and drunkenness? Do carousing in orgies, and things that create a fabric of imbalances like these resentment, stress, and bitterness cloud and rain on our minds?

Does our life have materials of solid fortitude with the fabric that can keep us afloat like a Spirit of life, liberty, kindness, love with strengths of righteousness, and a resistant against sin and death of the Spirit.
Second, what is powering our will? Now are our practices of the flesh prominent? Are our immoral quest overrunning our family, friends, and associates? Do our impure and indecent thoughts overrule our motives and put us in compromising situations and circumstances that cause our life to sink? What idolatrous things are we worshiping instead of fixing your eyes on God?

When confronted with problems, do we rebel against God’s plan for our life by manipulating people, places, and things? That works of the flesh known as sorcery is rebellion against God. Enmity is the state of the will that feels hostile toward someone or an ideal. I have done this in my choice at times, which these decisions creates strife, and I war against those who oppose my plans, and that act of the will is wrong in God’s eyes.
Finally, what guides our emotional state of the soul? Are our emotions floating from one wrong decision to the good one we think we have a right to make over another person’s will? Does that cause us to get sad, prideful, and angry when the ideal sinks, or do we let the fruit of the Spirit guide us, allowing God to move a person to make a faithful and loving decision on their own accord?

“But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (temperance, self-restraint, continence). Against such things, there is no law [that can bring a charge].” Galatians 5:22-23 AMP

Paul the Apostle

Yet, there is an unseen fight that we need to realize is happening in the world. The war is a fight that is a spiritual one. In the invisible realm of the spirit world. The warfare was written in the Bible,

“For, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” (Ephesians 6:12)

Paul the Apostle

As I said before, my pen is now my open dialogue with the world. I give people worldwide a reason to ask a question to those who may not think their lives matter. Writing has saved my life, and I will be doing this thought-provoking writing that gets others to either re-think their life or keep fighting. If you genuinely want peace of mind, body, and soul.
 Then prepare for your biggest war. The war I’m referring to is doing that thing that can change your stars and put a smile on your face. Write that first novel or book. Go volunteer at a nursing home by reading to a lonely person dying for company.

Build on something solid and let God build your foundation on the life in the Spirit of Christ Jesus, and bring liberty, kindness to others. As you build a ship on the materials of faith and love in righteouness. Then you will resist the tempation to just think of yourself. Bringing death to your soul and spirit.

Become a public speaker or a writer of a blog about the topics that interest you. Like Dorothy learned in the movie, “The Wizard of Oz.” After the Scarecrow ask her what did she know? She said, “Well…I think that it… wasn’t enough just to want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em. And if I ever look for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any farther than my backyard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it, to begin with.”

Your heart’s desire is worth fighting for in this life, but not at the expense of overruling someone else life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Moreover, your heart’s desire will give you peace.

So, find it! Start fighting for it! Nonetheless, just do it! We must work on cleaning up our world, or if we need to make our mark and be heard. It should have started at home. Stop building resentments, out of the foolish behavior that God didn’t design. Build a spiritual ship that will last. God bless, and I hope I see you here, there, or in the air. I am Michael Tsaphah for “The Chronicle.”

The End

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