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Place your trust in God
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Place your trust in God

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Thus saith the Lord, "Place your whole trust in Me and lean not to your own understanding."
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. Proverbs 3:5
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. Psalms 4:5)

Let My ways be your ways and My truths be your truths.
And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee. 1 Kings 11:38

Let not your heart be troubled when others speak evil of you falsely for they have chosen the way of darkness over light.
¶Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. John 14:1
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27

Any person, no matter who, who chooses to walk a pathway of evil is walking in darkness and there is no light in him.
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. 1 John 2:11
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. John 12:35

What fellowship does light have with darkness?
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 2 Corinthians 6:14

Light cannot co-exist with darkness.
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Luke 11:34
James 3:10  Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11  Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12  Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

Either you will have light or you will have darkness.
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. John 11:10

You cannot try to live in both spheres of influence, both darkness and light.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24

Any attempt on your part to reconcile the two will cause you to lose your peace within.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20

If someone has chosen the way of darkness, let them go their way.
For many are called, but few are chosen. Matthew 22:14
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: John 10:27