The Apprenticeship Way with Marc Alan Schelske

Your To-Do List Is Numinous (TAW006)

Aug 14, 2018

Explore the divine in your daily grind! The podcast reflects on those euphoric spiritual moments and contrasts them with our mundane to-do lists, prompting listeners to find God in the everyday. Through the story of Jesus' transfiguration, discover how even routine tasks hold sacred significance. Uncover the crucial relationship between emotional awareness and spiritual growth, encouraging deeper insight through community connection and exploration. Embrace the idea that life itself is a continual encounter with the divine presence!

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Contrast: Spiritual Moments vs. To-Do Lists

Spiritual mountaintop moments feel profound and connecting, but daily to-do lists often feel far less spiritual.
These ordinary tasks are where we miss recognizing God's ongoing presence and glory.

ANECDOTE

Peter’s Mountain-Top Experience

Jesus took Peter, James, and John on a mountain where his appearance gloriously transformed.
Peter tried to capture the moment by building tabernacles, showing our tendency to cling to spiritual highs.

INSIGHT

God's Emphasis: Daily Presence Over Moments

God instructed Peter to 'listen to my Son' instead of capturing the mountaintop moment.
The disciples were blind to the daily glory of simply being with Jesus in ordinary life.

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Episode 006 – Your To-Do List Is Numinous

Do you find yourself longing for those big, goose-bumpy, glowy moments of spiritual connection? Those mountain-top experiences are so great. They fill us up, and motivate us, and often leave us feeling connected with God. But you need to know something. If you’re looking for that kind of moment, you may be missing something even more important.

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Compare how you feel about the last “mountain-top moment” you had and your daily to-do list. How do those things feel different to you?
There’s a lesson for us in the original “mountain-top” experience, found in Luke 9:28-36.
- Peter and the disciples had a transcendent experience. In response, Peter wanted to capture it.
- God’s response was simple: “Listen to my Son.”
- The disciples had become blind to the glory of being with Jesus on a day to day basis.
Our whole life is God’s temple, and we are never not in God’s presence.
- Over and over scripture tells us that God is with us. Some examples include: Joshua 1:9, Isaiah 41:10, Psalms 23:4, Romans 8:35-39, Matthew 28:19-20 and 1st Corinthians 3:16.
Isaiah gave the name Immanuel to the coming messiah, and the Gospel writers applied that name to Jesus. It literally means “God with us.”
- Immanuel means God has come among us, in the incarnation. But this can seem like the distant past.
- Immanuel can mean that God is with us, with humanity, for us. But this can feel like an abstraction.
- Immanuel also means God is presently with us, now.
- John 14:20. “In that day you will know that I am in My Father, you are in Me, and I am in you.”
Knowing that through the Holy Spirit, God is with us at all times, can change the way we see the day-to-day moments of our lives.

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