The modern world promises happiness but breeds anxiety. Every liberty becomes a new pressure—consume more, achieve more, prove more. Yet Christ whispers what the culture cannot hear: striving isn’t thriving. Peace begins not in more control, but in surrender.

Picture your heart as a sacred place. Every day, whether you know it or not, you carry wood to the altar of your desires. And the fire consumes what you lay on it.

Do you see the idolatry around you? Modern culture is saturated with false worship—though it rarely looks like it. From entertainment and career obsession to algorithm-fed desire and sexual autonomy, idolatry has been repackaged as normal life. This devotional uncovers the subtle altars we build and invites a return to wholehearted worship of God alone.