Spiritual Multitasking: Part 2
I read one of the blog comments and thought I'd respond: "I'm curious as to where you place multitasking on the progression-line of spiritual maturity?"
I think it's towards the top of the list. I think we've got to get past "compartmentalizing" God. The ultimate goal is to be conscious of God moment-by-moment. Heaven will be the uninterrupted presence of God. So the goal is to move in that direction now. To appreciate every blessing, to notice God's handiwork all around us, to sense His unconditional love for us all the time. I think spiritual multitasking is the difference between a dial-up and DSL. Spiritual maturity is DSL. We're online all the time and our bandwidth continually increases.
All of that is to say this: spiritual multitasking is at the top of the "spiritual actualization pyramid" to borrow Maslow's hierarchy terminology. Like Jacob in Genesis, we come to the realization that "God was in this place and I didn't know it."
I think it's towards the top of the list. I think we've got to get past "compartmentalizing" God. The ultimate goal is to be conscious of God moment-by-moment. Heaven will be the uninterrupted presence of God. So the goal is to move in that direction now. To appreciate every blessing, to notice God's handiwork all around us, to sense His unconditional love for us all the time. I think spiritual multitasking is the difference between a dial-up and DSL. Spiritual maturity is DSL. We're online all the time and our bandwidth continually increases.
All of that is to say this: spiritual multitasking is at the top of the "spiritual actualization pyramid" to borrow Maslow's hierarchy terminology. Like Jacob in Genesis, we come to the realization that "God was in this place and I didn't know it."
1 Comments:
PM,
Thanks for further elaborating on the concept of spiritual multitasking. After reading your follow-up blog, I think my interpretation of this concept is closer to yours than my first impression. When I hear the term multitasking I think of discrete tasks being performed simultaneously. My first impression of your original blog saw God being treated as a discrete task to be done along with our other daily discrete tasks. While this is a good thing, I was concerned that God was still being "compartmentalized" -- but at least He was being included.
John 3:30 "He must increase and I must decrease" and the first part of John 15:4 "Remain in me and I will remain in you" form the nucleus of my understanding of my relationship with Christ. In otherwords, I am to become one with Him so that He can walk, talk, and act through me, that is, my tasks become extremely focused because they are Christ-centered and carried-out for His glory.
So...like you said in your follow-up blog, 'So the goal is to move in that direction now' -- I also see multitasking as a highly placed stepping-stone along the progression-line to becoming one with God.
P.S. I cannot deny that God Himself is the ultimate multi-tasker! I had to give you that one :)
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