Created to Be Helpers
“The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Genesis 2:18 (NIV)My husband came home sick today. He was fine when he left the house this morning, but when I came home from the grocery store, I found him at home feeling miserable.
“What’s wrong, honey?” I asked as I sat down near him. After he told me how badly he felt, I got him some Tylenol, something to drink and tucked him into bed. It’s nothing serious and he’ll soon feel better. But do you know what he needed? Someone to listen, to love him, to take care of him - he needed someone to help
him.
When God created the world, He made all the plants and animals, and then He made man. The Lord put Adam in a beautiful garden and every day God talked to Adam. Imagine having God all to yourself, walking and talking with you every day in a perfect, sinless world! It would seem as though Adam had it made.
But, something was missing. The Lord brought every living creature to Adam so he could name them. “But for Adam, no suitable helper was found,” the Bible tells us.
God knew Adam needed someone very special, “a helper suitable for him”. There was nothing else in all of creation so far that would be the perfect helper for man. So God created Eve, a woman to be Adam’s helper and wife.
When we get married, we are a helper to our husband. It pleases the Lord when we fulfill this role He created for us. When we take care of our husband and children, we show them God’s love.
It was the Lord God Himself who said, “It is not good for the man to be alone”. And, it was God Himself who created woman for man.
The world often portrays a very different picture where women compete with men and pay little attention to their husbands. TV shows and magazines show women too busy meeting their own needs to have time to help their family. The women on TV make fun of men and everyone laughs.
Do you think this is God’s plan? Was this what He had in mind when He said, “I will make a helper suitable for him”? I don’t think so!
The Bible tells us that God’s ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55:9). His plan is always best. God created man to be strong and to provide for his wife and family. But God knew that man would still need a helper.
Isn’t it wonderful to know we were created to fulfill such a special role? No one else could do it. Someday you will probably be a wife. Your husband will need you to help him: to create a pleasant home, make meals, and take care of him and your family.
I know it will be years before most of you are married. But you can make a choice now to embrace God’s plan for women. You have only to look around you to see many women today who are very unhappy because they have tried to do everything their own way.
God’s way is better! He created us to be helpers and He planted that desire deep into our hearts. That’s where we’ll find true fulfillment and joy.
Copyright, 2008, Laurie Latour.
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