In the Beginning, A Family
In the Beginning, A Family
Tuesday
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
— Genesis 1:26-28 (ESV)
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him....Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
— Genesis 2:18,24 (ESV)
— Genesis 1:26-28 (ESV)
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him....Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
— Genesis 2:18,24 (ESV)
Before God built a city, a temple, or a nation, He built a family. Genesis 2 records this with quiet, dignified beauty — the forming of a woman, the presenting of her to the man, and the establishing of the first household. God said it was not good for man to be alone (Genesis 2:18), and so He created a companion — not from distant material, but from the very side of Adam. This is intimacy built into the DNA of the home. The three verbs of Genesis 2:24 — leave, hold fast, become one — form the most enduring architecture any couple can build upon. They speak of priority (leaving), permanence (holding fast), and oneness (becoming one flesh). Your marriage is not an accident of timing or a social arrangement. It was designed by God as a sacred and structured thing. Treat it like the gift that it is.
Reflect:
Which of the three verbs — leave, hold fast, become one — most needs your attention in your current season?
Which of the three verbs — leave, hold fast, become one — most needs your attention in your current season?
Pray:
Father, thank You that You designed my home. Teach me to build according to Your design and not my own preferences. Amen.
Father, thank You that You designed my home. Teach me to build according to Your design and not my own preferences. Amen.
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