Title: Happy Family /Genesis 2:18-25
Contents If we look at the Old Testament Genesis, we can receive supply about the justification and necessity of the family in two Bible verses.
Genesis 1:27 says, “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female” and Genesis 2:18, “It is not good for a man to be alone, says the Lord God. I will make you a match for help.”
This verse emphasizes the fact that God's work of creation, created as male and female, is a being in which man needs a woman and a woman needs a man by nature and physiology. Therefore, men and women are happier when they are together than when they are separate.
However, in fact, men and women have different thoughts, thoughts, and customs in every way, and it is only when they overcome the heterogeneity caused by these differences between men and women that they feel happiness. When God created a family in this world, He gave us the mission to take care of the family and lead it well. Therefore, our happiness and unhappiness depend on how we think about our family and how we manage our family life.
Where does happiness come from?
It is God-given. In Genesis 1:27 and 28, it says, “God created male and female and blessed them.” The family that God blesses becomes happy. What kind of families does God bless? In Genesis 2:8, it says, “The Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and put the man he had formed there.”
Eden means good, happy, happy. In the fact that God led humans to the Garden of Eden, we can see the heart of God who wants a happy human life.
The problem is that happiness is a duty, not a right. Christians must be happy. But happiness doesn't just come, it comes with various conditions.
The important point emphasized in today's text is that husbands and wives, men and women, should acknowledge their homogeneity with each other. "Adam said, "This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; and she shall be called woman, because it is taken from a man."
Women are homogeneous and on equal footing with men in two respects. The first is spiritual and the second is physical. When God created male and female, he created them in the same image as God. The words of 1 Peter 3:7, “Husbands, dwell with your wives in the same way according to knowledge, and honor them, knowing that they are weaker vessels and one who will also inherit the grace of life.” It means that we should recognize and honor those who believe in Jesus and go to heaven together. In this way, spiritually, men and women are homogeneous and on equal footing.
The reason that God created a woman by pulling out the ribs out of the human body created from the dust means that the woman was created as a very precious being because the ribs are the closest to the heart. Also, since both sides of the ribs are vital, they must be protected, so it also means that they were created as protected beings. The Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 11:11, “There is neither man without woman, nor woman without man in the Lord.” It emphasizes that they are equal beings with elements. As such, men and women are essentially equal, except that men and women have different statuses and different roles.
The word ‘helper’ in Genesis 2:18 means that when God created man and woman, he created them as partners and cooperators in life. The fact that Adam was created first, and then Eve, was created in order of creation, not superior. Men and women are equal and homogeneous, but have different functions and tasks.
Men go out and work hard and work hard to feed their family, while women have a mission to conceive and raise children through childbirth while longing for their husbands. Therefore, although their physical condition is different, their status and their roles are different, husbands and wives should respect each other.
Above all else, we must cover our faults. Proverbs 17:9, 10 says that love covers all transgressions. Everyone has their own faults, but I hope you will cover them all and not be exposed.
Ephesians 4:2 says, “With all humility and gentleness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love.” Tolerance means accepting the other person's faults as well.
Eros love means to love because it is lovely, and agape love means to love nonetheless. It is to love in spite of lack, in spite of being ugly. Love requires sacrifice. This kind of love is difficult, but it moves people and moves wives and husbands. I bless you in the name of the Lord that you praise and love each other while having recognition as homogeneous beings.
Praise gives you strength, courage, and a desire to work. The wife wants to love her husband, and the husband wants to love his wife. Everyone has pros and cons. You have to keep praising the good. The love that a woman wants to receive is ‘interest, understanding, respect, dedication, empathy, and confidence’, and the love that a man wants to receive is ‘trust, recognition, gratitude, praise, praise, and encouragement’. I hope you respect each other and love each other hard.
Genesis 2:25 says, “Adam and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.” It means to put off hypocrisy and pretense. You have to deal with it with sincerity. When I take it off, my weaknesses and shame are revealed, but the loopholes and mistakes that are exposed to us within the fence of the home are not mistakes.
If you are surrounded by the light of God's glory, you will not be able to see the other person's faults. I pray in the name of the Lord that you will be faithful to your family life with a pure and sincere heart.