Belief Perseverance

While studying for my Psychology CLEP, I came across an interesting definition known as "Belief Perseverance."

Belief Perseverance involves maintaining one’s beliefs in the face of evidence that they’re not true.

It's like a filtering mechanism:  being able to ignore new and conflicting information.  Because to believe this new and conflicting information, (regardless if it's true or not) is to enter into confusion and insecurity.

 Believing everything that comes your way, is to rest under anything but the shadow of God's wing. 

Things get more complicated, confusion rages harder, the burden starts digging into your shoulders.... It may be a struggle, but it's just a part of the process.  

Things get simpler, the peace comes in waves, and God's significance rises above the mist....

It may be a struggle, it may be suffering. But it's faith.  It's a holy suffering because this is a suffering that has a final end; a purpose; a point.   

A couple of weeks ago I wondered if I wanted the answer, or if I wanted God's will. And I was living under this impression that the two were diametrically opposed to each other, or separate entities that seek equilibrium--at the expense of each other.  

So far the answer has continued to be, "Keep walking forward on this path. Be strong and courageous. Do not turn to the right or to the left."

Do you know how hard this is to do 

when life screams at you from the right, 

and threatens to pull you away from the left?

Do you know how hard this is to do 

when wave after wave of developments occur?

Do you know how crazy I feel for 

"maintaining my beliefs in the face of evidence that they're not true?"