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God has reminded us once again that He is in charge.
He does that, when we humans get a little too big for our britches. Nine-eleven was one of those times.
But let's go back a bit. The United States bragged that the Titanic was unsinkable, and people were dancing and drinking
their champagne, knowing that the watertight compartments throughout the ship would keep it afloat in any case. But they
were wrong. They were ripped by an iceberg, and instead of a couple of compartments being split open, the ice slit a huge
gash all along one side of the Titanic, and it went down on its first voyage.
Then in the early part of World War Two, the Germans had the mighty battleship, the Bismarck, and it was pronounced "unsinkable."
And it was so powerful that the British Navy knew that they were on the brink of losing the war before it hardly started.
No torpedo could dent its thick sides. No British ship had guns that could reach as far as those on the Bismarck. It was
invincible. But then one of the British planes dropped a torpedo that "just happened" to slip into its rudder,
causing the gigantic ship to be able only to run in circles, and soon the battle was over. The unsinkable was sunk.
Then in the latter part of that war, the Japanese also came up with a ship they called unsinkable. The Musashi, that
was longer than America's skyscraper, the Chrysler Building, was tall, and had steel plates that couldn't be blasted open.
And it had guns that fired shells the size of Volkswagen cars. But that huge battleship never fired a shot, and to the shame
of Japan, she went down off the Bay of Brunel in 1944, sunk by torpedoes and bombs.
All these "unsinkables" went down on their first voyages. And now thousands of square miles of Southern Asia...India
and the area south of it...have suffered an unbelievable tragedy that only took a shifting of an undersea landmass, in a moment
of time, to produce something that was so big, it knocked the earth itself off its timetable. Just by a part of a second,
but a thing that could not have been imagined beforehand. It reminds us that California is hanging on a shelf that could
shift at any moment, to each us another lesson; that God is still in charge.
So what can a person do. Well, there's no way to prepare for tragedy in this life, but there is a way to receive the
Promise of an afterlife where such things will never happen. No death, no goodbyes. If you haven't given your heart to Christ,
it's time. We've had another Great Warning.
37BT Bill Thornton January 7, 2005
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