“Out Of Man
This One Was Taken”
The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to
till it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of
every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you
shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be
alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” So out of the ground the LORD
God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought
them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called
every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all cattle, and
to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man
there was not found a helper as his partner. So the LORD God caused a deep
sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he 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. Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be
called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.” Therefore a man leaves his
father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. And
the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 2:15-25
We are not supposed to be lonely and by ourselves. After God
created man, He acknowledged Adam’s loneliness, and made him a helper. In
essence, God understood that the man needed another person with whom he could
be fully human.
No matter the cause of loneliness, we know, and God knows, it is
not good. He created us to be in close relationship with others and with Him.
Reach out and develop those needed friendships – for your sake and theirs.
Friendships can help dispel loneliness.
Our Daily Bread – December 29, 2007