Good morning Pastor John.
I have been talking to Jesus and “digging my hole” for him to plant truth in. My new prayer is, “Help me be a help, meet for my husband.” I found a few things interesting during the dig:
- God told Adam not to eat of the tree of life before He created Eve. I didn’t know that. Somewhere in my mind, I pictured God gathering them together and laying out the rules. That is verse 16 &17 of Gen chapter 2. Then immediately after that, God says it is not good for man to be alone and the next 7 verses are God creating a help meet for Adam.
- Eve was created after there was not a help meet for Adam found among the animals (Gen. 2:20).
I tried to look up the Hebrew word and meaning of “help meet” and found ezer kenegdo. Over and over, I found that dictionaries tried to turn that meaning into something more of “I am woman! Hear me roar,” which is not what God says in
Genesis 3:16.
When it is all said and done, I know in my heart what a “help meet” is. Not saying I am great at it because I think there is a tendency in women to be a “help-mat” more than a “help-meet”. It all comes back to the perfect order of God. If every heart is in its place, then God’s perfect and wise design naturally occurs.
That is the part I love the most. God really has everything set up so that even “fools shall not err.” It is all perfectly designed for success — if we just live in our places. There is a lot of love in that! A lot of love in knowing God wants us to succeed so much that He designed everything so we can.
God is rooting for us! I love that!
Beth D.
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