God is love and God is good and
everything He tells us to do or not to do is for our own good. We
can trust Him to know what is best for us! And as I read through
the laws given to Moses I noticed one interesting one that affects
us today as well:
'Do not practice fortune-telling or
witchcraft.' Leviticus 19:26
'If any among the people are
unfaithful by consulting and following mediums or psychics, I will
turn against them and cut them off from the community. So set
yourselves apart to be holy, for I, the Lord, am your God.'
Leviticus 20:6, 7
God was very strict concerning
this. Why? Well first of all because He expected His people to turn
to Him if they needed advice and certainly not to witches,
mediums or psychics! Only He knows what the future holds and it is
an abomination to Him if you think someone else can rather be
trusted to know the future.
Second of all, these people are
either fakes trying to predict something to happen or even worse,
they are under the influence of demonic activity, and that can be
very dangerous.
Only God knows the future and the
overall turn of worldly events are written down in detail for us
all to see in the Bible. There are really no surprises about what
lies ahead, only the actual date when all this would start to
happen remains a mystery.
Now today we are just as guilty as
the Israelites of old. People love to know the future; they love to
know what will happen to them. And therefore most secular
magazines/newspapers have horoscopes in with the stars predicting
how their week/month or year is going to be like. They follow doom
prophets, like the people believing in the Mayan calendar and that
the world were supposed to end on 21/12/2012. They jump on the band
wagon when some astrologer sees some stars aligning and this
predicts a new season for new beginnings. They go and see fortune
tellers, or even modern day prophets, hoping that they can glean
something about their future and hoping that they can change
whatever is predicted and so I can go on.
Now some people claim that
everything did turn out as predicted to them. Now it could be by
chance or remember that the devil has a network of demons all over
the world which sees and hears everything and can therefore tell
you information concerning a situation that no one else knew. For
example they can 'call up' dead people, but in fact it is only a
demon impersonating someone who has died. That demon can talk and
act like that person and can reveal facts that that person did in
private, because they were there and saw him do it. Or for example
the demons could have overheard that someone is planning to
assassinate John F Kennedy, now they predict through a medium that
it is going to happen and when it does, people praise the medium
and exalt him/her above God. That is the plan of the devil, to get
more praise than God does.
And we cannot allow that to happen
in our lives as Christians. God should be number one in our lives
and we should run to Him if we need to know something/or need
advice about something in the future. I have done it many times and
sometimes He clearly shows me and other times He doesn't, as it
might be better for me not to know. But the point is that He is the
one who truly cares about me and will lead me to where I need to
be. If you have read horoscopes or gone to the psychics of our day,
ask God's forgiveness and move on with Him. Ask Him in future and
trust His judgment over areas in your life.
Father please forgive us if we
believe news from others above news from You. Only You know best,
no one else. Thank you that we can come to You at any time and that
You are there whenever we need advice! We love You so much!
Amen