Moroccan Testimony TV Series

Arab Vision is producing a TV series sharing the testimonies of Moroccan believers.  This is one of them.

Since the time I was 12, I was an atheist.  To me, God was meaningless: a fable used by people in power to control others, or an imaginary source of comfort for people in difficulties. 

I remember a distinct change in my life began when I was in university.  One day, a fellow student told me something strange; she had heard on a radio station that a person called Christ would soon come to the earth accompanied by signs, wonders, earthquakes and unusual events as evidence that He is the King.  As an atheist, of course I laughed at her foolish words.  I remember clearly when she told me that the radio program declared plainly that the following Wednesday there would be an occurrence of earthquakes as a testimony to His coming. I couldn’t wait until the next Wednesday to come so I could enjoy ridiculing her once again with great laughter.  I was enjoying myself and sitting comfortably when an earthquake shook right there in the classroom.  I became very afraid, not because of the quake itself, but because perhaps what the Christians were saying was true after all! 

 From that day I decided to find out if there is a God in this world or not.   And if He does exist, who is He and what does He expect from us?  I read the holy books of many religions. 

 Being a Moroccan from an Islamic background, I said to myself that perhaps it is because I only know Islam and don’t know what the other religions say.  So I started studying the Hindu religion and Buddhist writings, and even studied African traditional religions to discover truth anywhere.  I did find some things that seemed to ring true but other things felt clearly false.  I asked myself why I wasn’t drawn to these other religions. 

Then a Tunisian friend offered me a New Testament; but actually I had no interest in reading it.  When I did finally read it, many things changed undeniably in my life.  One of the first things I read was the ‘Sermon on the Mount’.  As I was reading this passage, tears just streamed from my eyes. I felt as though the Bible was reading me, not me reading it.  I understood that the perfect image of God was displayed in the person of Jesus Christ.  I was certain that a mere human could not utter the words He spoke.  Afterwards I read some Christian books that contained artwork of Jesus coming from the heavens penetrating the clouds. I understood then that Jesus could penetrate the dark clouds of my life. 

Jesus is the true and living God, the one who would descend to us in humble circumstances, so that He might walk with us in our streets, that He might hear us and we hear Him.  This is my testimony.