April 8th, 2026
Wednesday, April 8th
Pushing Past Our Own Boundaries
By Nicole Goddard
“Mom, are aliens real?”
The recent NASA Mission has spurred many space conversations in our household. As my gut reaction rolled the word ‘No’ to the tip of my tongue, I paused and said, “You know what bud, I don’t really know. I haven’t seen any myself… but that doesn’t mean something out there doesn’t exist.”
I don’t know about you, but I have this persistent desire to package up reality in a neat and tidy box full of evidence and experiences that make it impossible to refute. It’s why I want to just dismiss the notion that aliens exist because I haven’t seen compelling evidence of one.
The people interacting with Jesus in today’s passage wanted to do the same. Despite witnessing miracles that would have pushed the boundaries of their understanding, they just could not decide if he was the Messiah or not, wanting to define Jesus based on biological boundaries they knew to be true.
They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother.
How can he say, ‘I came down from heaven’?” John 6:42 (Messiah pg. 410)
These people were clenching so tightly to what was logical and rational that they could not accept what Jesus was offering. They were SO close, just a heart posture away from eternal life and yet they couldn’t see past the lack of evidence before them.
Friends, I encourage us to hold loosely what we perceive as real and to not confine our God to a box. He is capable of more than we can even fathom and even what we know to be reality was created by him. We simply cannot risk what he is freely giving.
Pushing Past Our Own Boundaries
By Nicole Goddard
“Mom, are aliens real?”
The recent NASA Mission has spurred many space conversations in our household. As my gut reaction rolled the word ‘No’ to the tip of my tongue, I paused and said, “You know what bud, I don’t really know. I haven’t seen any myself… but that doesn’t mean something out there doesn’t exist.”
I don’t know about you, but I have this persistent desire to package up reality in a neat and tidy box full of evidence and experiences that make it impossible to refute. It’s why I want to just dismiss the notion that aliens exist because I haven’t seen compelling evidence of one.
The people interacting with Jesus in today’s passage wanted to do the same. Despite witnessing miracles that would have pushed the boundaries of their understanding, they just could not decide if he was the Messiah or not, wanting to define Jesus based on biological boundaries they knew to be true.
They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother.
How can he say, ‘I came down from heaven’?” John 6:42 (Messiah pg. 410)
These people were clenching so tightly to what was logical and rational that they could not accept what Jesus was offering. They were SO close, just a heart posture away from eternal life and yet they couldn’t see past the lack of evidence before them.
Friends, I encourage us to hold loosely what we perceive as real and to not confine our God to a box. He is capable of more than we can even fathom and even what we know to be reality was created by him. We simply cannot risk what he is freely giving.
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