Jesus and Satan recently had an argument
about who was better on his computer.
They had been going at it for days, and
God finally said,
"I'll have 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-mails. They sent
out e-mail with attachments. They downloaded.
They did some genealogy reports. They made
cards. They did it all.
But ten minutes before their time was
up, lightning suddenly flashed
across the sky, thunder rolled, the rain
poured and, of course, the
electricity went off. 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 restarted 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. When Satan observed
this, he became irate.
"Wait! He screamed. "He cheated! How
did he do it?"
God shrugged and said: "Jesus
saves."