What if your greatest enemy isn't the world or even yourself, but an imperceptible spirit of self-deception woven into your very nature?
That elusive force was the hidden influence shaping my life for decades. I left the Catholic school system, and the church, unconvinced of its core beliefs-never fully grasping what it actually meant to live out the faith.
Over the next two decades, my search for truth led me everywhere but the Bible. A spiritual void formed, one that New Age wisdom was all too eager to fill.
The pandemic lifted the veil on the link between my thoughts, feelings, and actions. Returning to the gym exposed the faulty "software" I was running on. Forced to confront this, I realized I'd spent my life under a form of spiritual capture. Yet, on the path to "becoming the best version of myself," I noticed many influences I admired operated in a moral vacuum of their own making. Beneath their self-affirming words masked a subtle gospel of self-worship, gradually revealing itself as preaching from a counterfeit Bible. This sparked a craving for true humility-the kind I only found modelled in Jesus Christ.
This book explores the shifts in conscience, values, beliefs, desires, and will that made one truth clear: as long as I wasn't living biblically, spiritual misdirection was inevitable. Course-correcting requires more than willpower; it demands a war on self-deception-where learning to fear the Only True God leads to certain victory.
