According to The Bible, which is The Word of GOD , The Origin of the human race is due to THE CREATOR : THE ALMIGHTY GOD . GOD Created man the sixth day of the creation. Even though GOD Created everything before HE Created man and placed him in a garden in Eden: man still realize that he is alone. It is not necessary to say that Adam had at list everything that he desired. But, by his side, the situation were very different; Because he is “alone”.
This is a hardly thing which could arrive a man: to realize and to discover that he is alone. “Alone” means: you do not have anyone to talk, while you talk with many people, no one to explain your feelings, no one to share your dreams, no one to communicate… And more of all, no one to help you to procreate in your marriage, by obeying to this Command of GOD : “And GOD blessed them. And GOD said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1: 28 (English Standard Version). As we could know it, “Wanting children is as natural as wanting a mate and is a normal manifestation of your growth as a person.”1 As we know it, GOD , in HIS Providence, Created Eve for Adam: “Then THE LORD GOD said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Genesis 2: 18.
So, we are going to find: why woman is considered as mans helpmeet? To obtain this goal, we’re going to present: Adam before GOD Created Eve, Adam after GOD Created Eve, the meaning of a “helper for man” and the importance of the woman in the marriage according to Proverbs 18: 22.
At this present time, it is important to make a presentation of Adam before GOD Created Eve. According to the Book of Genesis 2: 15, The Word of GOD says “THE LORD GOD took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.” Here, GOD gave to Adam this responsibility to take care of the garden of Eden. In this garden, we find river (Genesis 2: 1) and tree (Genesis 2: 9). “Then THE LORD GOD said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Here, while Adam has all the animals near him, all the trees and all the foods: Adam still “alone”.
So GOD , in HIS Providential care, Created Eve with one of the ribs of Adam (Genesis 2: 21). The Word of GOD says to Genesis 2: 22 “And the rib that THE LORD GOD had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.” Here GOD “Married” Adam with Eve in the garden of Eden. “Marriage is the sentimental relationship between a man with a woman.” It is an honor and a great consolation for Adam to have his own helper. “United with a woman, man was now complete and whole. No longer were they two people but one.”2
At this present moment, the heart of Adam was filled with joy. “Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” (Genesis 2: 23). Really, we understand how much “To love somebody is not just a strong feeling –it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.”3
GOD Created this strong Institution called Marriage in the garden of Eden by Creating Eve for Adam to fulfill the earth and by giving Adam Eve, to help him. As GOD gave to Adam his wife: Eve to help him, it is important to discover the meaning of a “helper for man”. In another hand, what does that mean a “helper for man”?
As we came to see it: GOD had given Eve to help Adam. So, woman helps man to procreate by receiving this Blessing from GOD THE FATHER “And GOD blessed them. And GOD said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Genesis 1: 28).
Woman not only “help” Man to have children, but she also helps man to educate them at home, especially, by presenting to them many spiritual values, the Christian social value… These values permit to transform a child to an important person who could please his parents also… Woman helps Man to take care of the house. Because, man is usually out of the house, to find bread for the family.
One of the more important things, in this precious relationship called Marriage, permit to see how much the wife of a man helps him to share his sexual life together. Because, “a man needs unconditional love, freedom, and acceptance in order to love and cherish you as GOD meant him to”4 Woman also helps Man to share a life of Communication. As we could remember it, Adam had all the animals near him, but he was alone. We know that no animals could communicate with man as a woman cans do it. Truly, “Communication is essential to the expression of love and indeed to life itself. Where there is love, there must be communication, because love can never be passive and inactive. Love inevitably expresses itself and moves out toward others. When communication breaks down, love is blocked and its energy will turn to resentment and hostility.”5 Woman cans help man to communicate. “Husband and wife, depicted as one in mind, heart and soul, are joined in a physical and spiritual union, a covenant between two families, ordained by GOD to fulfill HIS Holy purpose.”6 And she have to submit as to the will of GOD in Ephesians 5: 22 “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to THE LORD .”
Now, we see how much woman helps man to build their future together, by trying day after day: how they could realize many things in common; Prayer is one of them. “It is only when a husband and wife pray together before GOD that they find the secret of true harmony, that the difference in their temperaments, their ideas, and their tastes enriches their home instead of endangering it.”7
So, they could make face with the life together, by working together, by defending their Marriage together, by providing food, protection and education for their children, by understanding one another. Because, “Love is a supreme effort to escape from the prison of our aloneness, to seek completeness for our incompleteness, to trade our isolation for companionship.”8
And more of all, man have to establish a good relationship with his wife. So that they could Adore and Serve GOD together under The Power of THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD in The Name of JESUS CHRIST .
Really, we see the strong importance of the wife in the Marriage. As The Word of GOD says it in Proverbs 18: 22 “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from THE LORD.” Adam, by his side, obtained favor from THE LORD when GOD gave him Eve to help him. We have to consider how “Happy is the young couple who finds ahead of time GOD ’s plan for the home and sets out to follow it.”9
So that, it is important to let to THE OMNISCIENT GOD to help man to find his ribs: his own wife. Because, only GOD knows the heart of all the human race. So, all The Children of GOD can count on HIM to receive “the one” who is able to live with us really all the day of our lives, if GOD wants. Then, it is wise to ask GOD to give us “This Precious one” with who to be married and to build a strong family, if GOD wants.
Really, women have to be happy to help men by The Providential of GOD . “Marriage is the physical union of man and woman in a relationship that is only to be dissolved by death. There is more to marriage than the sex relationship but no marriage is likely to be a happy one if there is not a good and well adjusted sex life. Marriage is a DIVINE Institution and we rightly call it “Holy Matrimony.”10 GOD Created the woman to be a strong help for man in Marriage.
Foot notes
1) Evelyn M. DUVAL and Reuben Hill, Being Married, New York, p. 375
2) Edith Deen, Family living in The Bible, New York, p. 5
3) Liebman, Joshua. Peace of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946, p. 71 in H. Norman WRIGHT, The Living Marriage, New Jersey, p. 29
4) Darien B. COOPER, You can be the wife of a happy husband, Illinois, p. 29
5) Hone, Reuel. Here in is Love. Valley Forge, Pa. : Judson Press, 1961, p. 99 in H. Noman WRIGHT, The Living Marriage, New Jersey, p. 37
6) Edith Deen, Family living in The Bible, New York, p.5.
7) Tournier Paul. The healing of Persons. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1965, pp. 88, 89. In H. Norman WRIGHT, The Living Marriage, New Jersey, p. 119.
8) Cecil G. OSBORNE, The Art of understanding your mate, Michigan, 1970, p. 179.
9) John R. RICE, The Home, Sword of THE LORD Publishers, Tennessee, p. 55
10) Cathy RICE, The Right Way in Marriage for Women, Tennessee, p. 57
Bibliography
A. COOPER Darien B., You can be the wife of a happy husband, Victor books, 1975, Illinois, p. 156
B. DEEN Edith, Family living in The Bible, Harper & Row, New York, 1963, p. 274
C. DUVAL Evelyn M. and HILL Reuben, Being Married, Association Press New York, United State of America, 1971, p. 128
D. OSBORNE Cecil G., The Art of understanding your mate, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids Michigan, 1970, p. 192
E. RICE Cathy, The Right way in Marriage for women, Sword of THE LORD Publishers, Tennessee, 1968, p. 127
F. RICE John R., The Home, Sword of THE LORD Publishers, Tennessee, 1946, p. 381
G. WRIGHT H. Norman, The Living Marriage, Fleming H. Revell Company, New Jersey, United State of America, 1971, p. 128
Faisons des Disciples pour Notre DIVIN SEIGNEUR ET SAUVEUR JÉSUS-CHRIST avec l'Aide du SAINT-ESPRIT DE DIEU au Nom de JÉSUS-CHRIST Notre DIVIN RÉDEMPTEUR
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