What You Choose to Believe

There’s an interesting thought that the brain may function more like a receiver than a generator — like a radio picking up a signal rather than producing the music itself.

Whether that idea proves scientifically true or not, it raises a deeper spiritual question.

What are we tuned to receive?

Many people say they are open-minded. But if you listen closely, their personality, ego, and fears often reveal exactly what they are willing—or unwilling—to believe.

The older I get, the more comfortable I am saying something simple:

I don’t know.

The universe is too big.
Life is too intricate.
God is too great to explain completely.

Take something as simple as the sun.

The earth sits at a distance from it that allows life to exist. Move us a little closer and the planet burns. Move us a little farther away and it freezes. The balance that sustains life is so precise that scientists call it the “Goldilocks zone.”

Perfectly placed.

Yet most of us rarely stop and consider the wonder of it.

Maybe the real question is not whether God is present.

Maybe the real question is how open we are to seeing Him.

Jesus once said:

“Whoever has ears, let them hear.”
— Mark 4:9

It’s a curious statement. Everyone standing there had ears. But Jesus was pointing to something deeper. Some people hear truth. Others filter it out.

The difference often lies in the heart.

Our fears filter what we hear.
Our pride filters what we see.
Our ego filters what we allow in.

And slowly, without realizing it, we begin receiving only what confirms what we already believe. But faith has always required something different. Humility.

The willingness to say, maybe there is more here than I understand.

The psalmist said it beautifully:

“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
— Psalm 19:1

Creation is constantly broadcasting something.

The question is whether we are tuned to receive it.

Perhaps the spiritual life is less about proving God and more about becoming open to Him.

Because what we believe often shapes what we receive.

What we let in.
What we filter out.
What we allow ourselves to see.

And when humility replaces certainty, something remarkable begins to happen. We start noticing the wonder that was there all along.

Closing Prayer

God,

Expand my vision beyond my fears and assumptions. Give me the humility to admit what I do not know, and the openness to see Your presence in places I might otherwise overlook.

Tune my heart to Your truth.

Amen.