Shark!!!

A friend of mine email me this joke. I find it funny, but then again, it also makes me think...why the shark?:)

There is this atheist swimming in the ocean. All of a sudden he sees a shark in the water, so he starts swimming furiously towards his boat.
As he looks back, he sees the shark turn and head towards him. He's scared to death, and as he sees the jaws of the great white beast open, revealing its horrific teeth, the atheist screams, "Oh God! Save me!"
In an instant, time is frozen and a bright light shines down from above. The man is motionless in the water when he hears the voice of God say, "You are an atheist. Why do you call upon me when you do not believe in me?"
Confused, and knowing he can't lie, the man replies, "Well, that's true I don't believe in you, but how about the shark? Can you make the shark believe in you?"
The Lord replies, "As you wish," and the light retracts back into the heavens. The man feels the water move once again.
As the atheist looks back, he can see the jaws of the shark start to close down on him, when all of sudden the shark stops and pulls back.
Shocked, the man watches as the huge beast closes its eyes, bows its head and says, "Thank you Lord for this food which I am about to receive..."

Isn't it amazing how God could have change the mind of the man but chose not to? Have you ever thought how God could have change everybody's mind and have all of us believe in Him, but chose not to? He definitely is more than powerful enough to do it, after all, he created the whole universe simply by saying it, "And God said,'Let there be light,' and there was light." (Genesis 1:3). It is possible for God to give us the faith and trust in Him so that we won't go against Him, but He didn't do it. If you're going to think about it, it's the easiest thing to do. With just saying it, God can make us all believe in Him, whether we like it or not. However, God didn't do it. He doesn't work that way, and He doesn't love that way.

One of the greatest gift that God has given us, man, His greatest creation made in His image, is free will. And you can see from the old testament all the way to the new testament that God never force people to believe something that they don't want to believe. It doesn't mean that the people are right, more often than not, they're wrong and therefore suffer in the end. But God loves us so much that He doesn't want to make us into a robot who just follow and obey everything that He says. Would you like to live like a robot? I sure don't. But God still want us to be with Him in heaven, so what He did was to send His only son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins. The only thing that He asks us is to believe. "For God so love the world that he gave his only begotten son whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16) Just believe.:)