Suspicion creates and prolongs distrust, which can become so disconcerting that it seems everything is in disarray and unpredictable. Where suspicion exists, anxiety hovers like a vulture hovering over a dead animal. While suspicion is unnerving and creates fear, it may fall short of facts to prove its case.
William Shakespeare noted in his play Henry the Eighth: “Suspicion haunts the guilty mind.” Mankind’s shortcomings can hover like a dark cloud, especially when those shortcomings are responsible for behaviors which jeopardize relationships that should be nurtured and cherished.
Thomas Paine, the American Revolutionary War hero, wrote: “Suspicion is the companion of troubled souls and poison to the mind.”
Suspicion must be confessed to the Lord God to cleanse the body, mind, and spirit of its darkness. Darkness is banished by light, and Jesus is the light of the world. In him is no darkness.
His life is the light that shines through the darkness –
and the darkness can never extinguish it.
~John 1: 5 The Living Bible
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