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The Lord God makes man first (vs 7). Man is made up of ordinary things. Scientists tell us that the chemical elements which make up our body are of very little value. We are dust of the ground. Then the Lord God breathed into man and he became a living being. That is something different!
In verse 18, we find the first ‘not good’ in the Bible. It is not good for man to be alone. He has a relationship with God (e.g. vs 15-17) and with the animals and birds (vs 19-20) but not with any other person. Adam was created for relationship with someone made in God’s image like himself and God was not finished yet.
“The Lord God said ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him”(vs 18). This verse is followed by 7 verbs where God is the subject The Lord God formed…brought…caused the man to sleep…took…closed up…made a woman…brought her to the man (see verses 19-22). When God sees something that is not good, He does not ignore it or turn away.
Our God takes action.
We see the Lord God here as the first matchmaker in history. The story of Genesis 2 is a drama leading to that amazing moment when ‘the Lord God brought the woman to the man’. Imagine Adam’s feelings. He has been in a deep sleep and as he wakes up, he sees God coming toward him with …with who or what? “It’s a person like me! It’s a person not like me! Am I dreaming? Is this really happening to me? Well, it’s a wonderful dream! Let me go back to sleep and dream some more. No, it is real. She is real. Thank you, God. I am not alone anymore”.
When Adam is fully awake, he bursts into the first poem in scripture and expresses the profound reality of our being together in striking words. “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called “woman,” for she was taken out of man (vs 23). You might think you could make a more beautiful poem but this is amazing for the spur of the moment. It is interesting that from the first, before Valentine’s Day was invented, love expresses itself in poetry. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and they will become one flesh” (vs 24). For what reason? It is because the Lord God created men and women for one another and to be in relationship with one another, to be companions. This verse is quoted by our Lord Jesus in the gospels (Matthew 19:5, Mark 10:7) and by Paul in Ephesians 5:31-32. Paul points us to the final mystery of marriage it pictures the relationship between Christ and the church.
The Lord God is in the business of bringing men and women together. Why?
•Because that is the way He made us – in our togetherness we reflect His image.
•Because our relationship as husband and wife is the best reflection on earth of Christ’s relationship with us.
It is God who fashioned the first human family and this age will close with the marriage of the Lamb. Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready. (Revelation 19:6-9)
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