Genesis 2 -- What Is Missing

My commentary noted that this chapter is a series of firsts:  The first Sabbath, the first home, the first covenant, and the first marriage.

God instituted the first rest but He also knew that in the way He’d created man, “to not be needed is slow death to a man.”  We naturally strive to create and tend.  God also created man with another need – not to be alone.  He then proceeded to help Adam discover that need, by parading animals with their mates before him to be named.

Something that made Adam whole was removed from him by God to create Eve.  I don’t believe it was only a rib, though, for our basic natures cause us to desire what we see in the other gender.  When Adam saw Eve, he realized that everything about her completed him.  And it was at that realization that God instituted monogamous, lifetime marriage between a man and a woman. 

Father, I pray that You will show me a woman to complete me.  In the same way, I will be completing her, too.  Lead us to find each other and to know that this has always been Your divine plan and Your will for us.  Not our will, but Yours.

Your Brother In Christ,

Gary Ford