So, what did God’s Word say to you as you considered from yesterday’s post that marriage is the creation of God, the Originator?
Today we will we consider the second reason why marriage matters #mondaymarriagematters.
Marriage matters because this is God’s ultimate earthly plan for companionship. (Genesis 2:18, 21-22)
God said that it was not good for man to be alone, so he gave Adam a woman, his wife. Consider the following thoughts with me:
- The only thing in God’s creation that He said was “not good” was man being alone.
Genesis 2:18 “begins with the striking announcement by God that the man is not yet as God had planned to be. Adam is alone, and that state is not good—the only thing in creation that is not good in God’s opinion. Since the idea of ‘good’ describes that which is appropriate and fitting within the purpose of creation, the man’s being alone was not good, because he could not do all that God had planned for humankind.” (Allan Ross)
- Nothing else in the world completes a man, answers the “is it not good” situation except a woman (2:18-20).
This is God’s perfect plan from the beginning. His ways and thoughts are transcendent and perfect (Psalm 18:30; Isaiah 55:8-9). Adam did not find this completion in the animal world. According to the divine, righteous plan of God, He “made a woman” for Adam (2:22).
- Both man and woman are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27).
This means that both man and woman are personal, relational, rational, moral beings.
- Each in their God-given role, man and woman, complete each other (Genesis 2:18).
The word “helpmeet” in the KJV means:
Help – one who provides what is lacking; not a demeaning term; God created man to need a partner, a wife.
Meet – one who corresponds to physically, socially and spiritually
So, how does this apply to today?
- A husband and wife should be best friends. There is nothing wrong with a man having time with “his buds” or the wife having some “girl time,” but each should always long to be with their spouse over everyone else.
- A husband should seek to understand his wife (1 Peter 3:7) and the wife her husband so they can learn each other strengths and weaknesses. This will enable them to “play to each other’s strengths” and support each other’s weaknesses. Your wife is not your enemy. You should each be looking out for one another, to help, to assist, to learn, to work together. There you find completion.
- The greatest way to understand companionship is to learn of Christ and His relationship with you through His Word in power of the Spirit. God made you for a personal relationship with Him, and you are to love Him with all your heart (Matthew 22:37). Therefore, as husband and wife draw closer to God, they are automatically drawing closer to each other.
More tomorrow . . . because marriage matters.
From A Pastor's Heart 