Life Governed by the Stars

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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