Created to Walk Alongside

“Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man”. Genesis 2: 22 NIV

God made a woman for a man because there was no other fit companion for man among his God’s other creation.” t is better therefore that two should be together, than one: for they have the advantage of their society” Ecclesiastes 4:9.  It is significant that a woman was made from the rib of a man. “ It has been commonly observed, and pertinently enough, that the woman was not made from the superior part of man, that she might not be thought to be above him, and have power over him; nor from any inferior part, as being below him, and to be trampled on by him; but out of his side, and from one of his ribs, that she might appear to be equal to him; and from a part near his heart, and under his arms, to show that she should be affectionately loved by him, and be always under his care and protection: and she was not "created" as things were, out of nothing, nor "formed" as Adam was, out of the dust of the earth, being in the same form as man; but "made" out of refined and quickened dust, or the flesh and bones of man, and so in her make and constitution fine and lovely; or "built" (n), as the word signifies, which is used, because she is the foundation of the house or family, and the means of building it up: or rather to denote the singular care and art used, and fit proportion observed in the make of her”. Gill’s Exposition of the Bible

The woman completed God’s creation and is the flesh of the flesh of man, part of the whole, inseparable: just as the church which sprung from the side of Christ cannot walk without him.

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“If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love”. Amy Carmichael

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