Have you ever wished you could see into the future and know every detail ofthe rest of your life? Wouldn’t that knowledge make things easier? It seemsthat many people today desire that kind of enlightenment. In fact, astrology,one of the most ancient methods of foretelling the future, has become quitepopular again. Do you know who helped make it popular? Adolf Hitler. Hitler had five full-time, paid astrologers on his staff, helping him run the Third Reich.But although he had some remarkable successes, his life ended in disaster,burned up in flames.

  Astrology holds a strange attraction for humans, and many people don’tsee anything wrong with it. But reliance on astrology, a tool of the devil, canbe extremely dangerous. Astrology is harmful because it makes us dependent. Itweakens our character by depriving us of the ability to make intelligent,rational choices. Many people find its false power addictive, and if they allowit to take them over, it will destroy their lives. Listen to this story. A manonce had an astrologer tell him his future. The astrologer said that this manwould marry young, but his first wife would not be the wife who would bring him satisfaction. He would marry again, and this second wife would bring him alifetime of happiness. This man eventually married a lovely girl who made a delightful wife, but he felt so impressed by the fatalistic claim of theastrologer that he deserted this woman after a year and a half. He divorced hisfirst wife and remarried. But the second wife, supposedly the wife of hisdreams, became a fanatical cultist and drove him out of his mind.

  A young lady once asked me, “Do you know what my sign is?” I said,“No, what is it?” She said, “My sign is the sign of the cross.” What awonderful perspective! The cross is the proper sign for all Christians, for wecan entrust our future to God because of it. Don’t be afraid if you don’tknow all the details of your life, and don’t seek to know them through dubiousmeans such as astrology. Instead, trust God day by day. He has all the answers.And remember that because He has redeemed you, you already know the two mostimportant things about your future: (1) Heaven will be your eternal home, and(2) while you are on earth, God will work all things together for your good.