Man Overboard
Illustration
by Paul Decker

A man on a luxury liner fell overboard. He can’t swim and in desperation he begins calling for help. Now it just so happens that there are several would be rescuers on deck who witnessed the incident.

The first man, when he saw the man fall overboard, immediately reached into his briefcase and pulled out a book on how to swim. He tossed it to him and yelled, “Now brother, you read that and just follow the instructions and you will be all right.”

The man next to him, when he saw the man fall overboard he immediately jumped into the water and began swimming all around the drowning man saying, “Now just watch me swim. Do as I do and you will be all right.”

When the next person looked upon the drowning man’s plight, with deep concern he yelled out, “Now, just hold on friend. Help is on the way. We are going to establish a committee and dialogue your problem. And then, if we have come up with the proper financing, we will resolve your dilemma.”

The next man on deck happened to be a representative of the school of positive thinking, for he yelled out to the drowning man, “Friend, this situation is not nearly as bad as you think. Think dry!”

The next man on board happened to have led too many revival meetings, for by this time the drowning man was going down for the third time and desperately began waving his arm. Seeing that, the revivalist yelled out, “Yes brother, I see that hand, is there another? Is there another?”

ChristianGlobe Network, ChristianGlobe Illustrations, by Paul Decker