Then something happened that completely changed the direction I was going.
After those nine months, I was sitting on the side of my bed scrolling through Twitter when I came across a post that said:
Satanism teaches that the highest authority is Self.
That sentence immediately caught my attention.
Something about it made me stop and think about everything I had been learning. I began to recognize that the spirituality I had embraced had placed myself, my consciousness, my desires, and my own understanding at the center.
And that was when I realized how far I had strayed from the true God of the Bible.
I suddenly began seeing things differently.
I realized how ignorant I had been about what I was accepting as truth. I realized how deeply I had been deceived. I realized that I had been searching for spiritual truth while simultaneously moving further away from the God I had grown up hearing about.
I was in complete shock.
I couldn't believe that I had gone that far.
I spent the rest of that day thinking deeply about everything I had believed, everything I had learned, and everything I had been doing. I thought about God. I thought about the Bible. I thought about how far I had wandered.