I seem to remember saying this line years ago to somebody who was simply insisting that I was lying. After giving up on the effort to convince a determined skeptic, you also might walk away saying, "Believe what you will."
Perhaps after God has revealed so much to mankind, through His Word, through nature's obvious declarations about Him, and most importantly, through our own struggling-to-breath consciences, and we still so often "call him a liar"; perhaps God will ultimately give up, saying "Believe what you will."
We can not believe whatever we want to believe. Remember the song "I believe I can fly"? Though well sung and powerful, R Kelly could not. Of course he was speaking figuratively, but what about these lines from the same song?
If I just believe it, there's nothing to it
There are miracles in life I must achieve
But first I know it starts inside of me.
Maybe the truth does not make for good popular lyric, but like spinach, it's better for us than cotton candy. The value of BELIEF comes from the correct application. I might choose to believe that all dogs go to heaven, but is it true? (Not going there, sorry) I might like the idea that there is nothing after death, or that I will come back again as a great chess master, but an idea's comfort level is no match for its truth test.
Zig Ziglar said that "we believe what we tell ourselves". Fair enough. But do not take this to mean that whatever we tell ourselves is true! This proverb is double edged and should give us motivation to be sure that, rather than tell ourselves mythical delights we face up and tell ourselves, and thus believe, the TRUTH.By the way...MILLERWRITES copy is COPYRIGHTED. Why cut and paste when you can simply copy the link?
