Genesis 2

Bible Gateway Genesis 2 NIV link:  http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=1&chapter=2&version=31

 

No knowledge of good and evil so there is no need to be ashamed. However, here we see what happens when the forbidden fruit is eaten. Which always starts a good debate over who’s fault is it that they ate the apple!? That very answer can be found in this chapter, and it is one that is often overlooked today. “24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”  There is no He or She, there is only THEY. They did not become a couple, they did not become partners…..they became one flesh, each accountable for, and to the other. What one does, the other is liable, for they are two acting as one. Notice how it says Holds fast to his wife? We don’t do enough of that in this day and age. Today with all of the self-serving, and self-appreciation that is promoted by the media, and “friends” it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that we are number one in our lives…….Of course the right answer is that first and foremost God is first, all honor and Glory is his, but second, has to be our spouse, for us to put ourselves over our spouses is like taking better care of your arms than your legs.  We are not two. We are one flesh, one unit. I know for me there are two people that I can stand naked before (spiritually, emotionally, and physically)  and not be ashamed, God and my spouse.  I do not think that is a small coincidence!

 

 

Peace,

Brian