not competition but completion…

GOD gave to adam a garden, a command, and HE gave to adam, eve.

the garden was an opportunity to express GOD given personality. the command was an opportunity to express GOD given morality. his relationship with the woman was the opportunity to express GOD given sexuality.

notice i didn’t just say “sex”. i said sexuality. the relationship between man and woman is a wonderful opportunity to express in a healthy way the way that GOD has made us, the differences that we have. not competition but completion. adam needs a helper, GOD says. the word for “helper” doesn’t means somebody that serves somebody else. it really means somebody that completes somebody else. it’s the idea of two things coming together that somehow and in some way that they never could by themselves, complete each other. that’s the idea behind this.

i'm not better because i'm a man. you’re not better because you’re a woman. we’re both better. we’re both created in GOD’s image. and because we’re different we need each other. adam certainly needed eve. he was lonely in the garden. GOD met his need for loneliness by bringing a healthy relationship with a woman into his life. i think one of the reasons that we’ve got an epidemic of loneliness in our society is we don’t understand our GOD-given sexuality, how GOD made us. we try to find fellowship and joy in all the wrong places. and still there’s this deep pit of loneliness in so many lives.

just a thought from the front porch…