Marriage: An Idea from God

The marriage institution wasn’t a man idea. It was an idea from God. It is sacred and should be held in high esteem.

Gen 2:18  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

This verse of scripture tells us some point about marriage.

1.     It was God who took the initial step to institute marriage

2.     That marriage is meant for companionship and fellowship.

3.     It is God that can give that can give man “ the right help meet ”

Marriage was a yearning from the heart of God when HE saw that Adam was lonely. Because God himself wasn’t a loner, The Bible tell us

Gen 1:26  And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Gen 3:22  And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Gen 11:6  And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Gen 11:7  Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Isa 6:8  Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Also, when God created animals, birds and fishes, he created them male and female, but it was quite different for man. Adam was a loner. No partner, no helper to assist him. Therefore, He saw the need to make for him a woman, a companion. The yearning all started by God and not Adam (I wish to talk more about this later in my other postings)

The marriage institution was setup by God to overcome the issue of loneliness in man.

Gen 2:18  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

God seeing the loneliness of man, decided to make for man a help meet for him. This implies that marriage was instituted for companion and fellowship in order to overcome the challenge of loneliness.

Mal 2:14  Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

It will take the God to make the right help meet for every man. No man do the making of the “help meet for man”

Gen 2:18  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I (God himself) will make him an help meet for him (Man).

That is why it is very instructive for every man and woman to seek the Lord’s face when it comes to the issues to marriage.  It is the Lord who knows the right man or woman for every individual. He is the Potter, we are clay in his hand (Jeremiah 18:6)

Shalom!