Key Verse: Verse 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.”
Key Words: It is not good that man should be alone
There are a lot of things that these sweethearts teach us. They teach us about marriage – the coming together as one. They teach us about the influence of the woman. But the primary thing we learn from the world’s first sweethearts is the importance of our responsibility to God. They were to leave their parents (after marriage), they were to cleave to each other, and they were to weave their love as one with God.
When a couple fails to do this, the honeymoon soon leaves the marriage and separation ensues. Shortly thereafter they begin to play the blame game, each blaming the other for their sin. They were sweethearts but their relationship was never the same. Sin had entered not only the garden, but their marriage.
Sin, its effects: How does a worm get inside an apple? Perhaps you think the worm burrows in from the outside. No, scientists have discovered that the worm comes from the inside. But how does he get in there? Simple! An insect lays an egg in the apple blossom. Sometime later, the worm hatches in the heart of the apple, then eats his way out. Sin, like the worm, begins in the heart and works out through a person’s thoughts, words, and actions.
If you fail to keep God at the core of your marriage, you will find it decaying as well.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞Remember, two is the number of division; three is the number of completion. If all you have is a husband and a wife, you have division. When you add God to the husband and wife, you have completion.
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