I am sorry I am really bad at telling jokes but maybe someone might find this funny at the moment, it isnt meant to offend. I just have found myself thinking about it more and more here. Please read it as either man or woman, I have written man but this isn't meant to be sexist so either will do. Oh and this is the only time I will attempt to tell a joke here also. (well for all your sakes I hope it is, I am really pretty bad at it, something in my delivery I think-maybe, you be the judge). It wont make you spit your drink out like so many people's jokes here do me -so sorry. And it is quite old, but hey....tough
There is this guy floating in the sea, hundreds of miles from land. He clings to boat wreckage, that has floated past him.. And he is praying with everything he has left in him, that God will save him.
Not long after his prayers, a helicopter arrives at the scene, it winches someone down and they shout out over the crashing sound of the waves that they are there to help. The man in the water shouts back "No, God will save me, please go", so they do.
A little while later the man again prays to God to save him, he is getting tired now, and begining to wonder what he has done for God to turn his back on him.
Moments later a speed boat arrives, they call out to the man; "we have a life jacket put it on and we will swim out to rescue you". Again the man say's "no it's ok I'm waiting on God, please go". So it does.
The man is really pretty tired now, and so again he calls out to God to save him. He feels he cannot hold on any longer and so is really deseperate. Within seconds a coast guard appears and that in itself is pretty cool as he is miles and miles from any coast. The coast guard shouts through a megaphone, "Hold on we are coming for you", and yet again the man shouts with the last of his breath, no it is ok please go.
So they do.
Just moments later the man slips into the water unable to hold on any longer to the wreckage that he has clung to for days. It is bleak, he dies. Sorry, but he does.
He goes to heaven, and when he comes face to face with God, he angrily say's;
"I prayed to you and you were not there. Why Lord? Why did you not save me? Why oh why?".
And God looks at the man and gently says; " My son I did not forsake you, I was there...I sent you a helicopter, a speedboat......."
I hope this hasn't caused offense. I think maybe this can also help to answer us when we question and think we aren't being heard by God. I believe that God is a lot more understanding than we give him/her credit for, and also a lot more able sometimes to see what maybe we cannot. But this wasnt meant to be theological. And that said so ends my dip into the joke section, don't worry I wont be posting again. I am soo bad at telling jokes, and there are very brilliant people here that tell them already and so much better than I ever can. I just thought it would be better to write this here than in a serious thread where it might cause offence.
~fin
There is this guy floating in the sea, hundreds of miles from land. He clings to boat wreckage, that has floated past him.. And he is praying with everything he has left in him, that God will save him.
Not long after his prayers, a helicopter arrives at the scene, it winches someone down and they shout out over the crashing sound of the waves that they are there to help. The man in the water shouts back "No, God will save me, please go", so they do.
A little while later the man again prays to God to save him, he is getting tired now, and begining to wonder what he has done for God to turn his back on him.
Moments later a speed boat arrives, they call out to the man; "we have a life jacket put it on and we will swim out to rescue you". Again the man say's "no it's ok I'm waiting on God, please go". So it does.
The man is really pretty tired now, and so again he calls out to God to save him. He feels he cannot hold on any longer and so is really deseperate. Within seconds a coast guard appears and that in itself is pretty cool as he is miles and miles from any coast. The coast guard shouts through a megaphone, "Hold on we are coming for you", and yet again the man shouts with the last of his breath, no it is ok please go.
So they do.
Just moments later the man slips into the water unable to hold on any longer to the wreckage that he has clung to for days. It is bleak, he dies. Sorry, but he does.
He goes to heaven, and when he comes face to face with God, he angrily say's;
"I prayed to you and you were not there. Why Lord? Why did you not save me? Why oh why?".
And God looks at the man and gently says; " My son I did not forsake you, I was there...I sent you a helicopter, a speedboat......."
I hope this hasn't caused offense. I think maybe this can also help to answer us when we question and think we aren't being heard by God. I believe that God is a lot more understanding than we give him/her credit for, and also a lot more able sometimes to see what maybe we cannot. But this wasnt meant to be theological. And that said so ends my dip into the joke section, don't worry I wont be posting again. I am soo bad at telling jokes, and there are very brilliant people here that tell them already and so much better than I ever can. I just thought it would be better to write this here than in a serious thread where it might cause offence.
~fin