Muslim Hajj

What is it about religion – about our innate desire to worship – that makes so many people go bonkers? People can show remarkable, or at least reasonably sound judgment in every area of their life, yet when it comes to religion become unreasonable and flighty.
Suicide Cults, Suicide Bombers, the Taliban, the Ku-Klux-Klan; these are extreme examples of misplaced religious passion fueled by ignorance and fear, religious fervor and foolishness. Being zealous for God is a good thing, being fanatical is not. Some false teaching is relatively harmless; other false doctrine is blasphemous, treacherous, deadly and damnable. For instance, to consider a suicide bomber a martyr is ludicrous, yet many seriously embrace this notion and are whisked into eternity and judgment, not as martyrs, but as murderers.
The latest frenzied foray into religious fanaticism left 350 pilgrims trampled to death during the Muslim Hajj. People invent the most bizarre rituals imaginable in the name of religion. Sanction their delusion with sincerity, nurture it into a tradition, and then defend it as being God ordained.
God created us to have fellowship with Him, and He is not hard to find. By in large, what most people cannot comprehend about God, and what will prove to be their undoing is this, God is humble.
It’s easy to envision a who God is Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient, but humble — no way. Jesus said, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father.” Being found in the appearance as a man Jesus chose to humble Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (Philippians 2)
The character trait you must possess if you are to have fellowship with God is humility. God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.