LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone;

God created man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. But God said “It is not good that the man should be alone”; in the perfect paradise there is one thing that was imperfect or not good that was “man is being alone”. God is the one who see the necessity of suitable helper (We shall deal the word helper in another article”). Later we see God allowed all living creature to pass before him and Adam named all, but he found no suitable helper fit for him. So, the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

There are some profound truths that we understand from this passage

• First and foremost: it is not man who requested God for a helper/ counterpart. But it was God himself who has created the vacuum in the life of Adam.

• God himself decided to close that vacuum by creating a woman from man and introduced her to him

• Man, and Women need to understand that we are not created to be alone.

• The overarching purpose of God for humanity is not man centred rather it is Man and women centred. That means it’s a joint venture.

So, without her, God’s entire design for the function of humanity would fail. There would be no “they” to govern creation as God had intended. The creation of God was complete with the creation of woman. Now it was not for man alone woman created neither it was for woman alone man was given; they are one for the purpose fulfilling the desired plan of God for the world.

We must continue to love and respect each other because God our creator found it to be good for us to be together. Both the spouses must understand we are created to be together not to be alone. Man being the head of the house shouldn’t think that every think should happened according to my plan and I alone will decide. By doing that we are violating the very design of God. God has brought the right person for your life and we must work together to bless and keep everything under our dominion.