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Many of us have seen newspaper
columns that make predictions about people according to the sign
of the zodiac they were born under. There is enough emphasis on
astrology these days to make us ask ourselves whether these
"signs" have any power over us. Can the positions of
the stars at our birth really predict what we are and will be?
I was thinking about this the other day when I came across an
arresting statement in the book of Psalms. The writer speaks of
God's glory and then goes on to say, "When I consider thy
heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which
thou has ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of
him?"The man of God's creating would not be subject to
anyone but his divine Father. In other words, the
"stars" would have no power over him, because God,
being the creator, is the only power. If we look at the life of
Christ Jesus, we begin to find abundant evidence of God's
presence in individual human life. Although the Gospels tell of
the specially bright star that shone in the heavens at Jesus'
birth, we never read that the Master alluded to it in his
teachings. And he didn't offer it as a proof that he was the
Messiah, or Savior.
Instead, Jesus proved his Messiahship through healing and
restoring mankind. And in doing this, he turned people away from
material conditions to spiritual facts. He taught that God is
Spirit and that the man He creates is spiritual as His likeness.
Then it follows that to understand truly who we are, we must
think of ourselves in these spiritual terms, rather than within
the narrow framework of a finite, material sphere. The
distinction is important because it determines what we would
allow to have control over us. If wbased on birth, decay, and
death, we may well feel that m,any things other than God e accept
the belief that we are material entities, living within a frame
of reference that is have power over us. Christ Jesus offered us
a totally different view of ourselves. It is one based on the
fact God is Love, and that man is the image of divine Love. From
this standpoint, man is not subject to material forces or limited
to the good they may seem to offer. Instead, he has full access
to the total goodness God gives. The planets have no more power
over man than over his Maker, since God governs the universe; but
man, reflecting God's power, has dominion over all the earth and
its hosts.
This dominion means that we aren't locked into a material outline
of how our lives must proceed. Instead, we can experience God's
love, guiding us toward the freedom and certainty of God's power
that Jesus expressed. In actuality, the Master's whole ministry
gave proof that human lives can be redeemed. Sinners were saved,
the hopelessly ill were cured-even the dead were raised through
the Master's spiritual understanding of the Christ, Truth, he
exemplified. In short avoid negative predictions and horoscopes
which have such limitations and trust yourself into His infinite
goodness. Then
we will increasingly have the kind of spiritual dominion that
Jesus had.
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