Jesus and Satan were having an ongoing argument about who was
better on the computer. They had been going at it for days,
and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering.
Finally fed up, God said, "THAT'S IT! I have had enough.
I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and
from those results I will judge who does the better job."
So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.
They moused.
They faxed.
They e-mailed.
They e-mailed with attachments.
They downloaded.
They did spreadsheets.
They wrote reports.
They created labels and cards.
They created charts and graphs.
They did some genealogy reports.
They did every job known to man.
Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster
than hell.
Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly
flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and of
course the power went immediately off.
Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word
known in the underworld.
Jesus just sighed.
Finally the electricity came 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 of work.
Satan observed this and became irate. "Wait!"
he screamed pointing over at Jesus.. "That's not
fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don't have
any?"
God just shrugged his shoulders and said, "Jesus saves."