In the realm of physics there is something called an event horizon.  Technically speaking, an event horizon defines a boundary between anything on this side of the speed of light and anything on the other side of the space-time continuum. It is the boundary that represents the maximum distance at which events can currently be observed. For events beyond that distance, light hasn’t had time to reach our location, even if it were emitted at the time the universe began. Long story short, there are parts of the universe that will never be observable, no matter how long the observer waits for light from those regions to arrive.

Let me borrow that concept. Anytime you reach the outer limits of your knowledge you have an event horizon.  It’s the place where reason ends.  Only revelation will take you beyond the event horizon. It’s the place where our five senses end.  Only faith will take you beyond your sensory limits.  If we stay within reason, we get stuck spiritually.  But God wants to take us deeper and higher and farther.

I’m at a place in my life where I’m asking God to do a new thing in me, but I know that means I have to go beyond my event horizon.  I have to open my mind and open my heart to something new.  I can’t keep doing the same old things or I’ll be the same old person. Something old has to die.  You can’t go beyond your event horizon to new places in God if you don’t die to self.  It’s the little deaths to self that make us bigger people, better people.