Does It Matter What I Believe?

COMMENTS

What do I believe?  Is it even important and, in the long run, does it really matter?  The answer is both yes and no.

NOTES

Those questions came to me this morning as I was praising God the Creator, the Maker of everything that exists.  My thoughts went to the debate over creation.  There are those who believe that the earth and everything in it was created in a literal six days.  There are those who believe that all of this was created by a big bang.  There are those who have different opinions that range somewhere between the two extremes.

For me, and this will horrify those who are more scientific and more intelligent than I, the exact “how” of creation doesn’t matter.  The bottom line for me is that GOD did the creating.  Did He do it in a literal six days?  Great.  Did each of those “days” in Genesis represent an age or some period of time?  Great.  Genesis 1 tells us, “And God said….”  Did God speak, and His voice create a “big bang”?  (I can believe that God’s voice could have that effect!)  Great.  My belief that God is the Only and Ultimate Creator is unshakeable.  Nothing that science can prove can shake that belief.  Because to me, it doesn’t matter HOW He did it; it only matters THAT He did it.

(And to rest the minds of those who are horrified, I do believe that God created man, CREATED him, not evolved him!)

So, as I pondered these things this morning, my mind went to the questions asked in the Comments section above:  does it matter what I believe?

Yes, what I believe matters to me and, really, to those who are influenced by me.  It is important that my life and words are truth and not deception.

No, what I believe doesn’t change reality.  Truth is truth, whether I believe it or not.

Somehow, I find that comforting.  Truth is truth.  I cannot in any way change it.  Truth is a solid, unshakeable foundation.  My commission, then, is to search for it, to find it, and to believe it.  That’s what matters.  And where do I search?  Truth is not a thing or a concept.  Truth is a person.  God is Truth.  I find truth when I find Him.