It's Monday, and a lot of us are starting our week in the workplace.

Through our occupation, we earn a living so our families have the resources they need to sustain a chosen lifestyle.

That's the way God designed it.

Well, today, on Insight for Living, Chuck

Swindall reminds us that the rhythm of our work should include leisure. That's not a command

to take a vacation. Rather, it's a spiritual attitude that creates space for knowing God and enjoying

his presence. Let's resume our study that started on Friday's program.

Chuck titled his message,

Strengthening Your Grip on Leisure.

Back into chapter one of Genesis, where it reads, God created. Do you observe what God did? He says

that the earth was formless and void, and there was darkness over the surface of the troubled waters.

And in God's genius, he put together form and order out of that which was void of both.

God came on the scene and as he found it in disarray, he began to put it together in an orderly organized fashion.

He loves order.

And it began to display the beauty of his handiwork, and he flung the stars into space, and he called light in,

and he separated matter that was solid from matter that was space, and he pushed it aside,

and he built the canvas of the universe above us, and he painted his world there that still displays his glory.

He put it all together so that mankind throughout time would in just viewing the spaces above him see the glory of God.

It's fabulous when you enter into the experience of this creative act.

Oh, I cannot create something from nothing.

I must begin with where I am and use the matter he's given me in my head, but there are recesses there that are never, ever expressed.

Unless I take time to create.

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