Who is God: Genesis 2.18-22

Genesis 1 tells of the creation of man on day 6 of creation. God says, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." (Gen. 1.26) Genesis 1 states that God exists in community, "Us" and "Our" show plurality, and so man in made in the image of a communal God. Genesis 1.27 says, "God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." Genesis 1 gives an overview of creation, Genesis 2 goes into detail about how man came into being.

Initially there was just Adam, one mane who bore the image of God, alone in the world (there are when times that idea sounds amazing), but God looks at the man and says, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." God knows that man who exists in isolation is not fully alive, we were created for community.

Man has companionship, every animal is there, including his best friend, the dog, but that isn't enough. Man has a purpose, tend the garden, name the animals, care for creation, but that isn't enough. Man needs community, and so God does something about that. He creates woman.

This is where it really gets incredible. The word for rib is difficult to translate because it implies more than simply a bone. Here in the context it refers to the feminine nature of humanity. God takes half the nature originally in man and makes woman. Men reflect part of the nature of God, women reflect another part, they are unique and different, and that is how God intended for it to be. He made man, then from man He created woman. Men represent God's strength and protection, women His beauty and nurturing. And then God brings the two together.

Let us embrace who God created us to be as men and women, each bears a clear part of His nature, and each is essential with their own role to play (more on this in the future, I'm a little pressed for time this morning).


Fight the lion, 1 Peter 5.1-11

TO GOD ALONE BE THE GLORY!