Jesus and Satan were having an ongoing argument about who
was better on his computer. They had been
going at it for days, and God was tired of hearing all of the bickering.
Finally God said, "Cool it. I am
going to set up a test that will run two hours
and I will judge who does the better job."
So down Satan and Jesus sat at the keyboards and typed
away. They moused. They did spreadsheets. They
wrote reports. They sent faxes. They sent
e-mail. They sent out e-mail with attachments. They
downloaded. They did some genealogy reports. They
made cards. They did every known job.
But ten minutes before their time was up, lightening
suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, the
rain poured and, of course, the electricity
went out. Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every
curse word known in the underworld. Jesus just
sighed. The electricity finally flickered back
on, and each of them started their computers.
Satan started searching frantically, screaming "It's gone!
It's all gone! I lost everything when the
power went out!"
Meanwhile,
Jesus quietly started printing
out all of his files from the past two hours.
Satan observed this and became irate.
"Wait! He cheated! How did he do it?"
God shrugged and said, "Jesus saves."
