What If.
What If?
Job 10:8 Your hands shaped me and formed me.
Will You now turn around and destroy me?
9 Please remember that You formed me like clay.
Will You now return me to dust?
10 Did You not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and wove me together with bones and tendons.
12 You gave me life and faithful love,
and Your care has guarded my life. [1]
The Airbus A320, built in 1999, was tethered to a pier on the tip of Lower Manhattan on Friday morning — about four miles from where it touched down. Only a gray wing tip could be seen jutting out of the water near a Lower Manhattan sea wall.
Crews of NYPD divers went underwater to inspect the belly of the plane to make sure it was stable enough to lift and secure a bed of ropes underneath it.
Police and emergency crews also pulled about 15 pieces of carry-on luggage, the door of the plane, sheared pieces of metal and flotation devices from the water.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said there was no immediate indication the incident was "anything other than an accident."
As investigators scoured the wreckage of the Airbus A320, many of the 155 people aboard recounted survivor stories and hailed the pilot as a hero who delivered them from certain death.
Sullenberger, the pilot, was in good spirits and showing no outward signs of stress from the ordeal, a pilots union official said.
His wife, in an interview outside their California home, called him "a pilot's pilot" and said talk of him being a national hero was "a little weird."
A person briefed on Sullenberger's radio communications said the pilot considered emergency landings at two airports after his plane suffered a double bird strike, but twice told air controllers he was unable to make them.
He told controllers he planned to go into the river instead. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
Air traffic controllers first gave Sullenberger directions to return to New York City's LaGuardia Airport, but he replied, "unable." Then he saw the Teterboro airstrip in the northern New Jersey suburbs, got clearance to go there, but then again responded, "unable." He then said he was going into the river.
Everyone has felt, thought, or even said things that they didn’t mean or didn’t believe when they were upset or the pressures of life were just too much. Later, sometimes, just minutes they will say things like, I didn’t mean that or I wish I hadn’t said that.
In light of this and many other instances, someone said that we were the most compassionate nation on earth. But what about the unborn?
The game of what if? Have a little fun with it.
What if Elvis wasn’t born? We wouldn’t know about Graceland. We wouldn’t sing, You Ain’t Nothing But a Hound Dog. We wouldn’t be thinking we see him everywhere still.
What if George Washington wasn’t born? We would not have a first President. We would have to change our coins. We would have to guess who chopped down the cherry tree.
What if Abraham Lincoln wasn’t born? We wouldn’t be one nation under God. We wouldn’t the Emancipaton Proclamation.
What if Thomas Edison wasn ‘t born? We would be in the dark.
What if there had been no Wright brothers? We would get places a lot slower.
What if your grandpa wasn’t born? Your Dad wouldn’t have been born and you know what that means. You would be in a different family. Not.
What if Jesus wasn’t born? Our calendar would be confusing. We would still be in our sins.
There are many human emotions again that can lead us to do something that is not right. Even Jeremiah has these emotions in Jeremiah 20:14, 15
14 Cursed be the day
on which I was born.
The day my mother bore me—
let it never be blessed.
15 Cursed be the man
who brought the news to my father, saying,
“A male child is born to you,”
bringing him great joy. [2]
Job felt that similarly in: Job 3:1-16
Bianca Jagger, a regular at the legendary nightclub Studio 54 throughout the 1960s and 1970s, almost aborted her daughter Jade in 1971... because the pregnancy was interfering with her partying.
However Jeremiah also was informed of a theological truth in Jeremiah 1:55 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified you;
I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”[3]
You know that there are several scenarios in the Bible about people wanting to kill Moses ASAHWB and Jesus….and even in Revelation.
Israel Houghton and his story.
Psalm 139:13 For it was You who created my inward parts;
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise You,
because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful,
and I know ëthisû very well.
15 My bones were not hidden from You
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw me when I was formless;
all ëmyû days were written in Your book and planned
before a single one of them began. [4]
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[1] The Holy Bible : Holman Christian standard version. 2003 (Job 10:7-12). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] The Holy Bible : Holman Christian standard version. 2003 (Je 20:14-15). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] The New King James Version. 1982 (Je 1:5). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
[4] The Holy Bible : Holman Christian standard version. 2003 (Ps 139:12-16). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.