Fear GOD and Dread Nought

GOD's miracles are all around us if we choose to perceive that which we see.

C.T., the oldest active member of Mableton's South Cobb Lion's Club, turned 94 years old on Wednesday, 11/1/2006.

We threw a birthday party for him at a local coffee shop in Mableton:

http://www.LilliansSitNSip.com

"GOD has blessed me with so much that I am ashamed to ask HIM for anything more." -- C.T.

Indeed, GOD has... as the 40+ attendees would readily testify.

The candles on the cake read 94 and burned brightly until C.T. blew them out with a strong breath.

Everyone marvelled at how C.T. does not need to take any prescription medications unlike most of the other attendees, many with either hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, cardiovascular disease or a combination thereof.

One attendee recalls that when C.T. is asked why he has not finished eating everything on his plate, he typically replies "My eyes are always bigger than my stomach."

C.T. stops eating before he is full.

Consequently, at 94 years old, C.T. is leaner and trimmer than almost all the other attendees.

One attendee asked, "Do you take any medications, C.T. ?"

"Only a baby aspirin when I remember to take it, but I often forget to take it though." -- C.T.

I nodded approvingly.

Another attendee asked me, "Is it OK for C.T. to eat that piece of red velvet birthday cake ?"

I replied, "It is not what you eat but how much you eat that can hurt you."

How did C.T. learn and retain this fact while others have been oblivious to it to their detriment ?

Here's his true story:

C.T. served two years in the engineering B division on the amazing USS Texas BB35 dreadnought class Battleship from 1944 to 1945:

http://www.usstexasbb35.com/

This is the only DreadNought Battleship that still exists in the world today. It is the only Battleship remaining that has fought in both World Wars.

When C.T. was aboard the USS Texas, the Battleship was sent to Normandy with the expectation that this large DreadNought, with ten 14 inch guns and a crew of about 2000 sailors, would be targeted by the Nazis to be destroyed early once the shelling of D-Day started. A converted coal-burner, the USS Texas did not have the speed to evade torpedoes much less artillery fire.

Indeed, on D-day, the USS Texas with its ten 14 inch guns ablazing shelled the Nazis so extensively that it wore out some of its guns and so the U.S. troops landing on Omaha beach met with little resistance from the shell-shocked Nazis.

The Nazis did try to destroy the USS Texas and were given plenty of opportunity.

"We were sent in as a decoy to draw fire from the enemy." -- C.T.

Indeed, all accounts are that the USS Texas with its crew of about 2000 was sent to Normandy without the expectation that the Battleship would return.

"Our captain decided that after cruising by the coast the first time without damage to the ship that we did not do enough so we went back again and that was when we were hit." -- C.T.

Indeed, the Battleship was hit **twice**. One large shell buried itself into the side of the USS Texas but did not explode. Another smaller shell found its mark on the bridge of the ship killing one sailor (the only death that has ever happened in the 92 yr history of the USS Texas).

All the pictures of the USS Texas during D-Day show there was a maelstrom of exploding Nazi shells all around the Battleship as if she were protected by some kind of force field. In hindsight, this was GOD's armor.

One attendee asked, "Which was tougher for the USS Texas, fighting the Nazis or fighting the Japanese ?"

"It was harder fighting the Japanese. They had their Kamikaze pilots coming at us from all directions. They were dressed in red silk ready to die." -- C.T.

No Kamikaze pilot was ever successful in damaging the USS Texas ! ! !

That was most assuredly, without doubt, GOD's armor.

So, how did C.T. learn the value of staying lean and trim on this blessed DreadNought in the midst of exploding Nazi shells and Japanese Kamikaze pilots ?

"The E Division, which was in charge of the engines, needed someone to crawl to the back of the engines to do some maintenance. I was the only one on the ship who was able to crawl through the narrow spaces to do this." -- C.T.

One attendee upon hearing this opined that the designers of the Battleship must have messed up.

It is in our shortcomings that GOD's infinite strength and wisdom is perfected and perceived.

From 1944 to 1945, the amazing DreadNought Battleship USS Texas and her crew of nearly 2000 sailors depended on C.T. staying lean and trim.

That was quite an incentive for  C.T. to stop eating before he was full and stay hungry all the time.  Yes, C.T. and hunger have been friends ever since. 

This is an especially important message this time of year as we are being brainwashed by all the false "Stop World Hunger" and "Feed the Hungry" messages everywhere.  Hunger is our friend.  It is starvation that is our enemy.  Starving people truly are not hungry. They have lost their hunger after going for weeks without eating.

"Blessed are you who hunger now for you will be satisfied." -- LORD Jesus Christ (Luke 6:21)