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 Everything in Genesis 1 and 2 is said to be good, until you get to 2:18. Here we read, "It is not good that the man should be alone." God declares a man without a companion to be "not good." There is more to this truth than Adam simply needing a wife. Even more vital than Adam's physical, emotional, and psychological needs is Adam's mandate to bear God's image. What was not good about man being alone was his inability to fully carry out God's commands to rule over and subdue the earth. God supplied this need for Adam by creating for him a "suitable helper," with whom He could do the work God assigned to mankind, multiplying into a family and then a community of image-bearing servants.



God made people for relationship: relationship with Himself and with the rest of creation. Yet as you are painfully aware, you and I do not live in a community that perfectly reflects and brings glory to God. Our society, our families, our marriages, and even our churches are often devastated by shattered community. The first effect of the fall was a broken relationship between God and man, followed closely by fractured relationship between the first couple.


God created us for relationship, but our sin has rendered us perpetual relationship breakers.

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