We Choose.

Belief.

We choose what we believe. When something becomes a fact we call those who deny the fact crazy. If I believe the sky is entirely emerald green I would be called crazy because it's been deemed factual that the sky has never been entirely emerald green. However, if my eyes have altered things so that all my color perceptions are off, I'm no longer considered crazy, just impaired by something that alters my ability to perceive the facts of colors. If I see all other colors normally but still insist the sky is entirely emerald green, then I will be deem crazy, hallucinatory, something wrong inside my brain. If I insist on believing in my green sky to the exclusion of all others saying otherwise, it's my choice, isn't it? Crazy or not, I'm choosing what I believe. I could stipulate to the facts that no one else see the green sky so I must have a problem, but I could also pretend not to see the green sky and tell people I see the sky the same as they do. I could choose to say something other than what I believe to be truth for me.

We choose what we believe. 

I know I've personally come face to face with people who refuse to comprehend truth because they want to hold fast to their own perception of truth, and it's very frustrating to have two people believing the truth to be different things. Logic dictates that often in situations there is only a truth and an untruth. And when we choose to believe our own truth, we may have to accept the fact the other chooses to believe what to us is not truth, but to them it is truth.  

Truths and untruths and we choose our own beliefs based on what we believe to be truth. 

If my truth is belief in my Savior, I will build upon the foundation of that truth. Others may not have the Savior as their truth and they will build upon the foundation of another truth.  My Savior, my Foundation tells me to love all without exception. My truth does not believe in any forcing of those truths upon another. My truth tells me to love those who believe differently from me, because I have no way of knowing if others are still on their journey to the truth, and their path different from mine. Love the basic humanity we all share, love the knowledge that all are free to choose, but that all do not choose together. Love that as long as life exists the choice may be possible, and God alone knows the truth of all people, more than we will ever know.

We choose our truths, our beliefs, our foundations, our principles, our standards, our morals, our way of living. We choose, no other chooses for us. 

I choose Love, I choose God. I pray for forgiveness for every single moment of my life I've not chosen love, that I've not chosen God. I make supplication to my God to do for me ALL I cannot do, to be for me all things, for I am nothing without Him. I choose to believe my God will hear my supplication, my prayer and I thank Him! All glory to Him, all through Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior, now and forever! Amen.

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Rom 10:11  For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 

Rom 10:12  For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 

Not Ashamed. 

The root of the word "believe" indicates a foundation, something upon which one can build. To believe on Jesus is to build upon him. He is the tried Stone, the sure Foundation, the Rock. Isa. 28:16.  

Isa 28:16  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. 

Whosoever builds upon him will not be obliged to flee in confusion when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon his house; for he is the Rock of Ages.

No Difference. 

The keynote of the gospel call is "whosoever." "God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16.  "Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Rev. 22:17. "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." No distinction is made; "for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek."

Read again the second and third chapters of Romans, and the fourth also. Indeed, the whole book of Romans gives a death-blow to that wicked idea that God is partial, and that he favors some people more than others. The idea that God has special blessings for one nation of earth that he has not for others, no matter whether that one nation be called Jews, Israelites, Anglo-Saxons, Englishmen, or anything else, is a direct denial of the gospel of the grace of God.