The Lord Will Save Me

[Gauracandra]

During a particularly wet winter, flood waters rise so high in one town that the national guard evacuates all the residents. One man stays behind, however, and when the water is waist-high, two national guardsmen in a boat motor past his house, checking for people left behind.

 

"We're evacuating the town because of the flood! Jump in the boat and we'll carry you to safety!"

 

But the man says, "No, don't bother; I've led a pious life, and the Lord will save me."

 

The men in the boat shrug their shoulders and motor away. Later, when the water level has driven the man onto his roof, another boat appears.

 

"Haven't you heard the town has been evacuated? Come on, we'll save you!"

 

But the man sends them away again, saying "No, no, the Lord will save me!"

 

The water level keeps rising until the man is standing on his chimney and barely keeping his head above water, and a helicopter, doing a final check, appears overhead. It drops a rope, and the loudspeaker says, "Grab the rope and we'll bring you to safety!"

 

But the man waves the helicopter away, once again saying, "No, the Lord will save me!"

 

But the water level keeps rising, and he drowns.

 

When he gets to heaven, he is completely bewildered. He asks God, "God, why didn't you save me?"

 

And God says, "Well, I sent you two boats and a helicopter."

[Shashi]

This is not being so funny but true. I am thinking of all those peoples I was rejected in my life. Which ones were sended by Lord. GauracandraJi, are there anyones in this forums you are rejected thinking them not from Lord?

[ShegavichaRana]

I have read this story with a different version but same inference. I liked it thouroughly. The inferences are, 1) We cannot perceive the various ways God wants to help us which we ignore due to our egotism, and 2) and if God is present everywhere, then He is also present in the hearts of those boatmen, who volunteered to help the man. All in all, God's ways are mysterious and inscrutable.