I stood long at the second floor window watching cars cut a path through the snow as they passed by. My heart was throbbing with creative energy and my mind was racing to make use of it.
Ideas were being born, and it was beautiful.
I would have stood there all day, if I was allowed. The space . . . there was just something about that space! I didn’t even know what it was about the space that caused me to come alive, but whatever it was was tangible.
The eastern wall consisted of one, unbroken, floor-to-ceiling window. The ceiling had to be at least thirty feet high. The floors were a beautiful, dark red hard wood, and the lighting was just perfect. The furniture was sumptuously selected and situated, and the decor was inviting and pristine.
It was open. It was clean. It was modern. It was minimalist. And I discovered in that moment that I function at my optimum when I’m in a space like that.
Creative space.
Creative space is space that has been restored to it’s original purpose. In the beginning there was nothing but God and space; the moment the Creator enters a space, that space becomes creative.
The space does not create; the space simply makes room for creation to unfold itself.
The opposite of creative space is cluttered space. Cluttered space is no longer space. Space is that which is free, available, unoccupied. Clutter robs space of its freedom. Cluttered space is no longer available space. Cluttered space is occupied space.
All space begs to be filled with creative life! You must redeem your cluttered spaces and give them purpose once more. Give them the privilege of making room for God’s creative life to unfold through you.
You may not be a painter, or a designer, or a writer, or a musician, or a sculptor, or an inventor . . . but you are creative. You can create space where there is clutter; you can make room for God’s creative life to unfold, and you can occupy that space with a willing heart and a nimble mind, and you can wait before the Lord in expectation.
Watch what he says to you. Watch what he does for you.
The Bible commands us to redeem the time. Sometimes the best way to redeem the time is to redeem the space.
Creating creative space. Non-creative space is space without a purpose. Creative space is simply space with a purpose. What do you envision happening in each space within your realm? What is now occupying that space? What can you remove from that space in order to restore it to its purpose?
If you can answer these questions and act upon them, you can create creative space.
