Friday Reading: Genesis 2:18-24
Key Verse: Genesis 2:20
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Devotion:
Last night at our teens meeting we had a rather loud discussion about the rolls of men and women; as much as I tried to steer the discussion in the right way in the beginning the teens came up with a whole bunch of differences between boys and girls (and none reverted to the obvious physical differences). The simple fact is that we are different. God created us different for a reason and we need to remember that. If God had wanted one gender to be “the dominant race” (as some would see it) then He would have created more of one gender... He did not create Adam and Steve, He created Adam and Eve!
We can use all manner of animals and tools to reach our goals and to help us out, but the fact of the matter is that we are not really whole until we have a partner of the opposite sex. No matter how much we would like to think otherwise or how much we want our partners to be one particular way or another, we were created as two halves of a whole. God created male and female of each animal too because they need to be full too. But there is a big difference between man and any other mammal or animal; we have been created in God’s image!
God took Adam’s rib, being close to the heart, so that we would keep our partners close to our hearts. God knew exactly what we required and delivered as He knew best. Yet, time and time again we try to change the rules because we think we know better! How can we know better than our maker? How can we begin to think that we know better that the One who knows every hair on our heads and every star in the sky?
We have an awesome God who continues to bring us things that we can never dream of. He continues to make sure that our earth balances perfectly around the sun so that we can survive. He is the one that created us to be man and woman, living as partners who need each other...
Points to Ponder:
Do you help with stuff around the house?
Are you being the example God wants you to be?
