Adam and Eve

Ponder this question; Could we be completely happy in a relationship just with God?

Apparently not; Adam was in a one on one relationship with God. He walked and talked with him in the Garden of Eden. However, God knew that Adam needed something else.

Gen. 2:18, “Then the Lord God said, ‘it is not good for the man to be alone; I will make a helper suitable for him’.”

God could have made the woman right then, but he didn’t. He gave Adam the task of naming all the animals. An interesting thing happened, as Adam was naming all the animals he had to have noticed that for every He-animal there was a She-animal. He realized that there was no counter-part for him.

Gen. 2:20, “… but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him”.

God knew Adam needed someone but God wanted Adam to know it too.

God could have made the woman out of dust (like he did Adam) but instead God “caused a deep sleep to fall upon him… He took one of his ribs… and fashioned into a woman (from the rib).”

Here’s a lesson from God; you don’t get something for nothing. There was a price that Adam had to pay.

Adam must have been pretty excited about the woman because he said…

“This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man (he was still naming things). For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.”

Adam without his rib was incomplete. When his rib was returned to him in the form of a woman he was again complete (at a certain level). Of course as the relationship between a man and woman develops they are “one flesh” in a completely different way.

Julie and I have been married for 36 years. We had some disagreements in the early years of our marriage but as time has gone by we are of the same mind on so many things. Too often at the first sign of trouble young married couples are too ready to dissolve the relationship, but overcoming trials makes the relationship stronger and better. It builds trust.

When my dad died one of the things I remember my mom saying was that she was no longer “the most important person” in anyone’s life.

Marriage can be a great blessing if we’ll work God’s plan. God knows exactly what we need.