Morning Inspiration with Pastor Merritt
It really shouldn’t surprise any of us that marriage is under such attack today and in such trouble today. I had never thought about this before, but do you realize that Satan didn’t bother Adam before Eve was created? As soon as Adam and Eve were married Satan attacks. I believe the devil has his biggest gun aimed at the husband-wife relationship, because he knows if he can destroy that he can destroy children and families, because whoever controls the family controls the future.
As we think about “tying the knot” I read a comment from a mountain climber who said the reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home. God wants to tie the knot in our marriages so tight that no matter how tough things get we will keep climbing and we won’t run. I believe the secret to do that is found in this passage of scripture. If we will do what Adam and Eve did, we can tie a knot where we will be bound forever.
“Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” (Genesis 2:18)
Up until this point, everything that God had created was either good or in the case of humanity, very good. God is happy and God is pleased until now. For the first time, God says, “This is not good.” What is not good? “It is not good that the man should be alone”. This is the first negative thought ever recorded in history. It is not that God had made a mistake. It is not that there was dirt on the carpet or a spot on the window. God’s creation was not imperfect, but it was incomplete. It was not good for Adam to be alone. Technically, he wasn’t because he was surrounded by the birds of the air, the bees of the field, and the fish of the sea, but there was only one – man. God never intended for humans to be alone.
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