Together: Genesis 2:22-25

God wants us to understand that He is a God of order and a God of a fulfilling, complete relationship.  He knows us.  He knows what we need.  He knows what will satisfy our soul.  He alone can bring us out of the brokenness we have to the completes found in Him.

God causes Adam to fall asleep and takes a rib from Adam’s side.  Out of this rib, God forms Eve.  Eve isn’t formed out of the dust.  At least, Eve isn’t formed out of the dust directly.  Since Adam came from the dust, Eve technically came from the dust, too.  But the fact that God specifically took a part of Adam and formed Eve indicates God’s intention.  Adam and are more than made from the same stuff, they are meant to be together.  As discussed yesterday, Eve completes Adam in the same way as Adam completes creation.  The creation account is about relationship and making things complete.

Today, we push further into this idea.  Adam receives Eve readily because she is made from him.  Adam knows she makes him complete.  He receives God’s gift to him for what it is.  Eve is the part of creation that no other aspect of creation could fill within him.

Notice there is a sense of equality in the creation account of Eve.  God didn’t set Adam above Eve.  God didn’t set Eve above Adam.  In God’s perfection, Adam and Eve are created together.  They are to share responsibilities.  They are to share duties.  They are one together.

The creation account goes on to say that for this reason a man will leave his mother and father and hold fast to his wife because they make one flesh.  A man and his wife make a unified expression of completeness. There is no talk – yet – of head of the household, doing as the other says, or who has control in the relationship.  God’s ideal in creation is that Adam and Eve would be united as a single expression of the pinnacle of God’s creative power.  Adam and Eve together are to be a single expression of God’s provision.  Adam and Eve together are a demonstration of how God uses one part of creation to complete another.  Adam Eve together are a demonstration of relationship.

This concept fits beautifully with what Paul says in Galatians 3:28 and the surrounding verses.  For we who have put on Christ, there is no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, or male and female. We are one together in Christ.  The creation story speaks to bringing order out of chaos and it speaks to bringing relationship out of need.  God wants us to understand that He is a God of order and a God of a fulfilling, complete relationship.