Thought for the week from the Rev David Jones (we 15th April 2012)

Descendants of those who died on the Titanic a hundred years ago have set sail on a memorial cruise to the site of the wreck where a memorial service will be held at 2.20am on 15th April when the Titanic actually sank.

People from twenty eight countries have booked on the cruise and will then continue to New York, a journey which sadly their predecessors never made.

RMS Titanic was two years in the building, the most luxurious cruiser and the largest man made moving object in the world. Its amenities were five star, a floating palace and with its fifteen watertight doors it was widely believed unsinkable.

Perhaps this was the reason that there were only twenty lifeboats when there was an actual capacity for up to sixty. The lifeboat drill on the actual day of the disaster was cancelled, after all it was widely believed that Titanic was the ship that even God could not sink, so why bother?

It was no act of God that sank the Titanic.

lt was an iceberg on the path of a vessel that with increasing speed wanted to reach its destination in record time. The tragedy of the Titanic is that human pride and arrogance were clearly present in almost every aspect of the story.

These are, of course, strong emotions and can only be offset when we learn the ways of humility and consideration of the needs and rights of others; and as the Bible teaches to do that which is right, to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God.

Rev. David Jones

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