Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 101, 1 Samuel 28

A fall 2024 Pew Research Center survey found “that 30% of U.S. adults say they consult astrology (or a horoscope), tarot cards or a fortune teller at least once a year, but most do so just for fun, and few Americans say they make major decisions based on what they learn along the way.”

Friends, listen to me, astrology, horoscopes, tarot cards, and fortune tellers are not fun. They’re dangerous and demonic. Stay away from them! Listen to the Lord’s words to His people as they’re preparing to enter the promised land.

“There shall not be found among you … anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the LORD your God, for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.

Deuteronomy 18:10-14 ESV

Maybe you’d never dream of going to a fortune teller or necromancer. Are there other cultural norms that you have made part of your life? Gluttony? Cussing? Sex outside marriage? Pornography? Drug use? What about wasting countless hours of your brief life playing video games, watching TV, or scrolling through social media?

Heavenly Father, please forgive us for the many ways we have gone the way of the world, following the pagan culture of entertainment and selfishness. We want to worship You in Spirit and Truth. Help us to put to death what is earthly in us and to put on compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, forgiving and loving others, and following You with all our hearts for all our lives. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.