For 4 months now I have been a member of the forum site http://www.qatarliving.com/ . Although that is my official duration as a member, I have known the site even before I went to Qatar. The site has a lot of information about Qatar which is helpful for expatriates and would be workers coming into this oil and gas-rich Arab Gulf state.
The site has classifieds where goods are sold. I must admit I joined the site so I can contact the sellers when I was looking for a vehicle I can use. It also has a forum where information regarding Qatar is asked and every topic is discussed at length.
I have contributed on some of the topic threads and there were times I did my share of humorous and sometimes controversial pronouncements. I was confident anyway that there is still a certain amount of anonymity since we use our chosen username as our site identity.
However, one of the topics I would tend not to contribute on or give my piece of mind is regarding religion and worship. This is a topic I always notice that does not get to a good conclusion. What I notice is that in the end the topics gets up muddled by comments and ideas that each others religion is the better one or each others God is the True God. Sometimes there are those questioning the existence of God in the light of world events.
In this melting pot of cultures, people will always tend to disagree more than agreeing on this particular subject. And in this disagreement people will try to impose their beliefs, their culture and their way of thinking in order to tell the world that they have a better God and by which they are a better people by such belief.
In this hodgepodge of ideas that at times I get myself to question: is it by what we say and what we write that we are able to convince people that ours is the true belief and others should rightly follow? St. Paul in his letter to the Corinthians rightly declared that “If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.” I believe in St. Paul that it is in the outward action of loving can we rightly profess that our God is the True God.
We all know how love changes us to be better persons. And I believe that only a daily witnessing to God by our actions can we convince people of the righteousness and the truth of our belief. How can we convince others that we are children of the True God if we condone the violence and discrimination that some proclaim in the name of what we believe? Only a life filled with true expressions of love, a love that does not discriminate, a love that understands, a love that is patient, will be a living witness to the existence of God. For as St. Paul says, God is Love.
By my words I may not be able to convince you that my God do exist and He loves you. But hopefully my actions and my life be to you a witness to His Love and His existence.
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