Lord of Mercy

A Christian, playing an active role in his church’s activites, backslided and started leading a wayward life. He was usually drunk most of the time and on one occasion, as he was staggering back home after leaving a beer parlor, he fell into a gutter.
He staggered back up, put one leg inside the gutter and kept going like that until his pastor saw him. “What are you doing brother?” the pastor asked while pulling him out of the gutter. The drunk then started shouting, “I am healed, I am healed, praise the Lord.”
The embarrassed pastor then said, “I only pulled you out of the gutter,” The drunk then stuttered, “Lord of Mercy, I thought I had been crippled by God.”