An aircraft carrier ship is a large city that travels on the ocean. They are world wide command and control centers. The NIMITZ class carrier is a floating airport. The flight deck alone is 4.5 acres. The four aircraft elevators are each the size of two city blocks. "Powerful steam catapults (affectionately known as "Fat Cats") can accelerate 37-ton jets from zero to a safe flight speed of up to 180 miles per hour in about 300 feet and in less than three seconds". The electrical system can furnish enough electricity to support a city of 100,000 people.
These ships carry missiles, guns and electric warfare. They have distilling units that can make 400,000 gallons of fresh water from seawater every day. "NIMITZ-class carriers boast all the amenities that would be found in any American city with a comparable population, including a post office with its own ZIP code, TV and radio stations, a newspaper, a fire department, a library, a hospital, a general store, two barbershops and much more"
Yet this traveling city turns direction by a rudder "wherever the pilot desires" (James 3:4). So our tongue controls much of the outcomes in our lives. With it we give grace to others or harm others (Colossians 4:6).
