Blake Gillette - I Will Be What I Believe Lyrics

Lyrics

I will be what I believe

Living in this world with change all around

But with the prophets' words, I'll stand on solid ground.

Even though it's still hard, with questions that arise,

Every day I will say:

'll have faith like brother Joseph and the strength of the pioneers. I'll be brave as a strippling warrior and like Nephi persevere.

I will spread God's love to all I know and serve.

I will plead with my Father on my knees: I will be what I believe.

We'll spread the gospel wide throughout all the earth

With Jesus as our guide we'll weild the sword of truth.

Even though it's still hard, with questions that arise,

Every day, I will say:

I'll have faith like brother Joseph and the strength of the pioneers. I'll be brave as a strippling warrior and like Nephi persevere.

I will spread God's love to all I know and serve.

I will plead with my Father on my knees: I will be what I believe.

We are as the army of Heleman. We have been taught in our youth, and we will be the Lord's missionaries to bring the world His truth.

I'll have faith like brother Joseph and the strength of the pioneers. I'll be brave as a strippling warrior and like Nephi persevere.

I will spread God's love to all I know and serve.

I will plead with my Father on my knees: I will be what I believe.

I will be what I believe.

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I Will Be What I Believe - Blake Gillette

Meaning & Inspiration

I listened to this song and kept getting hung up on the idea of being what I believe. It sounds empowering, like something you'd want to tell your kids to help them face a tough day, but then I started thinking about where that strength actually comes from. The song leans heavily on the examples of Joseph, Nephi, and the stripling warriors—figures that feel really specific to a certain tradition rather than the broad witness of the Bible. When I think about standing on solid ground, my mind goes to the foundation of Christ, but here the focus feels more like an imitation of heroes. It’s like, can my own resolve really be what saves me or holds me steady?

There’s this line about being the Lord's missionaries and wielding the sword of truth, which definitely hits on that imagery from Ephesians about the armor of God. That’s biblical enough, I guess. But then I have to ask myself if the focus is on the right thing. If I’m looking at these heroes to find my own bravery, am I missing the point of grace? I mean, Paul was always pointing people away from their own efforts and back to the fact that it’s Christ who works in us. The song says I will be what I believe, but that puts the weight of success right back on my own back. It feels a little lonely, honestly, even when it talks about pleading with the Father on my knees. I wonder if I can really be what I believe just by deciding to be, or if I’m actually just waiting for Him to make me into something I could never be on my own. It leaves me wondering if the gospel is about my performance as a warrior or something entirely different.