Men Need Close Companionship
First, v.18a says literally “not good is man’s aloneness”. That is as clear as can be. Aloneness, solitary living is not good. One of the deepest pains sociologists have measured in society is living and isolated and lonely life. They report that such people ache with a deep pain they can’t even fully describe. Adam ached. God observed and announces the solution for this great need.
Next, in v. 18b is God’s plan, “I will make him a helper comparable to him”.
Notice God’s first reference to the woman is by the title of ‘helper’. English just doesn’t convey what that Hebrew word means; hence it is not seen as a great title. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary defines help as a noun meaning “one that helps, especially a relatively unskilled worker who assists a skilled worker, usually by manual labor”. That definition in English is what has fueled the misconceptions of the inferiority of women and wives. If that definition doesn’t capture the world’s view of us quaint people called Bible-believing Christian marriages, then I don’t know what does.
But that English definition is precisely not what ‘helper’ meant to God. The Hebrew word God chose means something grand, literally, it describes a person “who assists another to reach complete fulfillment”. When the same word is used in other places in the Old Testament, it refers to someone who went and rescued another person. Now there we have it.
God made woman to come to man’s rescue and save him from his lonely existence. Eve was designed to rescue Adam not only from loneliness but also to completely fulfill Adam.
Then, God continues with another word that captures even more of the beauty of marriage. This helper was “comparable” to Adam. This suitable or comparable helper was literally “corresponding to” Adam. Man, before woman, had some missing pieces in the puzzle of his life and God said that was not good. So, Eve was the one who provided the missing pieces to Adam’s life. Husbands, by God’s design, are incomplete until they receive that one God designed to correspond to them.
God promised that He would design her exactly to Adam’s specifications. And that is God’s plan for marriage. Eve was to fulfill a God-designed necessary role that rescued Adam from missing his fulfillment. In that process of being God’s special creation for the man, Eve also found her completion and fulfillment. Marriage was such an incredibly designed wonder of God!
God Designed the Missing Piece To Adam’s Puzzle
From GEW-07a – Husbands Loved by Grace-Energized Wives (070617AM)
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