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The Rock his work is perfect; all his ways are just. A faithful God, without bias, he is righteous and true. (Deuteronomy 32: 4)

I am someone who grew up in a devout Muslim environment, raised from a young age to pray, fast, and read the Quran. I was always keen to be religiously and morally committed. Despite this, I always had an unshakable question within me about the true meaning of God, love, and justice, and why I sometimes felt that there was something missing in the understanding I was brought up with.

Over time, I began to explore on my own and did not settle for the ideas I inherited. I read philosophy and explored various religions and texts, starting to compare and reflect deeply. This search led me to reconsider many of the assumptions I once regarded as unquestionable truths.
The more I delved into reading and reflection, especially when comparing what I read in the Quran with the Gospels, significant intellectual questions began to form in my mind about some of the concepts I understood regarding God’s attributes, such as justice, will, guidance, and mercy, and how they can be comprehensively understood.
In contrast, when I read the teachings of Christ as found in the Gospels, I felt—describing my personal experience—that there was a greater emphasis on love, forgiveness, and mercy. This profoundly affected my inner perspective and opened a wide door for spiritual reflection.

After a long period of searching and inner struggle, I reached a personal conviction that led me to choose faith in Christ, not out of a momentary emotional impulse, but after a long journey of contemplation during which I felt that this path was closer to the understanding and meaning that settled in my heart. This decision marked a significant turning point in my life, despite the social challenges and pressures from my surroundings that accompanied it.

Today, I view my story as a journey in search of truth, meaning, and inner peace. It is not an invitation to follow a specific path, but rather a personal experience I went through while trying to be honest with myself about what I believe in.

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6:5

A Prayer for Transformation.
Our Father in heaven, we are so grateful that your people of all generations have been listeners from the heart to what you reveal about what it means to know you, how it is that we seek you, what it means to love you, to need you, to fall on our face before you, to tremble before you, to delight in you. And we pray that as we think today, tonight, and throughout the weeks to come about the way in which you meet us, you change us, and transform us, we ask you that you would give to us nothing less than your Holy Spirit himself, the one who enlivens us, awakens us, gives us ears to hear, who writes words of life upon our hearts and reveals who you are.

Show us our dire need, reveal your promises of mercy, and remind us that you do what you say and that your actions back up your words. We pray that we would be men and women who enter into the good things that you offer, and we would be those men and women who give to others freely, humbly caring for them, because of all the good things that you give to us. We pray your blessing, your wisdom. Would you help us this very day by the power of your grace?
Amen.

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me. (John 5:39)

I grew up in an Arab country within a conservative Muslim environment, where I was raised to adhere to religious practices and uphold customs and traditions.
I practiced rituals such as prayer and fasting, but over time, I began to ask deep questions about the reality I observed around me.
I noticed a contradiction between what was said about morals and the actual practices of cruelty and mistreatment of others.

I was puzzled by how a person could combine outward religiosity with actions that lacked compassion and humanity.
This led me to delve deeply into the sources of what I had learned, trying to understand the roots of these behaviors.
With increased reflection, I began to feel an internal conflict between what I believed and what I saw and experienced.

Later, I moved to live in a European country, where new experiences and different perspectives on life and humanity opened up to me.
I saw communities that valued respect and humanity without religious appearances, which made me rethink my concepts.
During this journey, I began to learn about the teachings of Christ, which focus on love and inner peace.

In these teachings, I found answers to my questions and a sense of peace that I had never experienced before.
I realized that, for me, faith should be an authentic relationship that comes from within, not just external rituals.

After a long journey of searching and reflection, I made the decision to leave Islam and embrace Christianity based on personal conviction.
Today, I live with a new faith that grants me inner peace, and I believe that sincere searching leads a person to the truth that brings comfort to their heart.