Greetings to all
Here are some of my thoughts following the tv report on the Hajj last Sunday night.. I wonder if some of our Muslim friends here would mind commenting on some of these things for me? My thanks for those who do.
As a person who believes in the One and Only True God.. I am as totally sorry for my sins as those muslims I saw weeping on the hajj on Sunday night. I saw and wept with them as I realised the depth of their desire to know that God had forgiven them. I heard their relief when they spent the day repenting and then offered sacrifice the day afterwards and the way many of them discussed how clean they felt. I also understood why they were willing to risk death in the stampede and crush as they threw stones at the pillars representing satan.
These are emotions and feelings I as a believer can relate to completely. They are the feelings I felt when I accepted Jesus as my saviour. Their realisation of their sins and their need for forgiveness is so much part of who we are as humans. We don't need to live in the Middle East, Australia or even Asia or America to not completely identify with those feelings.
But a question for you all? When those people return home, as clean as they feel now, how long will that feeling last after they have returned back to their normal and usual responsibilites? after they return to their work and find themselves behaving in ways they wished otherwise? Why do some of them return again and again if they can do? Is it so that they can feel the sense of relief they felt immediately after the Hajj?
I have other thoughts following the television presentation, but I am interested in your responses. I will be back to read them when I can.
God bless
Carol