August 24, 2011

  • God Provides a Helper

    The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” (Gen 2:18)

    When God created Adam, Adam was in full communion with God.  The world has not yet fallen to sin.  Yet, God stated that it is not good for man to be alone and that He will make a suitable helper for man.  It is said that God is all we need; this is true because He is the truth, the way, and life.  Yet, in my quest of loving and putting Him first, He provides me a helper (though I am happy serving Him as a single person just a Saint Paul did).  Adam already had the greatest relationship with God, yet God provides Adam a helper (this is just how these scriptures speak to me :) ).

    In the same way, I had been going through a life of devotion and love for Christ all by myself until the helper that He provides came into my life.  Now, we are living our Christian walk together.  I am called to love her unconditionally just Christ loves us, the church.  And, she is called to help me in this journey of loving the Lord and serving Him.  It is because He is the center of our lives that I am able to love unconditionally and she able to submit.  It is because Christ is our first love that we are able to serve one another, care for one another, and die to ourselves.  In pursuing Christ with fervor, we both are supporting each other in the faith and as a result, we grow closer to Christ and closer to each other in a way that is not possible if we were doing it on our own.

    My wife is my helper in my journey of faith and in putting God first (after all, this is the greatest commandment).  The greatest commandment is not to put your husband or wife first, it is putting God first and obeying God.  In that context, God's command for husbands to love their wives unconditionally and for wives to submit to their husbands make sense.

    God is very much a part of marriage, not only because it is He who is reflected through marriage, but also because He instituted it.

    The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” (Gen 2:18)

    Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.” (Mark 10:9)

    Christ intends that the husband reflect His unconditional love to the church and the wife reflect His submission to the Father.  Clearly, the command of husband loving their wives unconditionally and wives submitting to their husband requires that we put Christ first and foremost.

    Copyright 2011 by Christenstein