Tarot Cards and Your Future

I was at a dinner party recently where someone pulled out a deck of tarot cards. "It's just for fun," they said. "Nobody really takes it seriously."

But I think more people take it seriously than we'd like to admit. And I think the reason why reveals something deep about human nature.

The Desire to Know

We all want to know what's coming. Will the business succeed? Will the relationship last? Will the test results be good news or bad? The uncertainty of the future is one of the heaviest burdens of being human.

And so we look for answers wherever we can find them. Horoscopes. Fortune cookies. Algorithm-driven predictions. Tarot cards. We dress it up in different clothes, but the impulse is the same: tell me what's going to happen so I can stop worrying.

What Scripture Says

The Bible is remarkably clear on this subject. Deuteronomy 18:10-12 explicitly forbids divination, sorcery, and fortune-telling. Not because God is a killjoy who doesn't want us to have fun at dinner parties, but because He knows something we often forget: the future belongs to Him.

When we seek knowledge of the future through means other than God, we're essentially saying, "I don't trust You with what comes next." We're trading the sovereignty of a loving God for the empty promises of a card deck.

The Better Way

Here's what I've learned after seven decades on this earth: God doesn't reveal the future because He knows we can't handle it. Not because we're weak, but because knowing the future would rob us of the faith that sustains us.

Faith is not knowing what comes next and trusting God anyway. That's the whole point. If we knew the future, we wouldn't need faith. And without faith, we'd miss the most important relationship of our lives.

So put down the cards. Pick up the Word. And trust the One who holds every tomorrow in His hands.