Day 75 - Divination

I wasn't quite sure what to write today, so I told myself to wait just a bit and I'd find some inspiration.

I found my inspiration for today's blog from an on-line Christian women's forum that I belong to. One member had posted about "divination," an attempt to "foresee" into some sort of situation through some sort of process or ritual. Divination can be seen as some sort of systematic method people use in order to organize random events of our lives.

Divination includes, but is not limited to: omens, sortilege (or casting of bones), fortune-telling, horoscopes, astrology, palm-reading, feng shui, sorcery, necromancy, dream interpretation, crystal balls, numerology, Ouiji boards, "seers," and seances.

The Bible is very clear on divination: it is an abomination to Him.

• Exodus 22:18: "You shall not permit a sorceress to live."
• Leviticus 19:26: "You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying."
• Leviticus 19:31: "Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God."
• Leviticus 20:27: "a man or a woman who is a medium, or who has familiar spirits, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them."
• Deuteronomy 18:10-11: "there shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who call up the dead."
• Micah 3:7: "So the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners abashed; Indeed they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.

We are not to know our futures...it is in God's hands. We are not to speak with our dead loved ones...they are in God's hands until we meet again. We are only to seek God's will for our lives...

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Father, I thank you for this very important study on divination. Amen.