Joy of My Heart with Anne Graham Lotz - January 31

January 31

A Suitable Helper

Wives, submit to your own husbands. . . . Husbands, love your wives.

Colossians 3:18–19, nkjv

God created them male and female. The primary reason for woman’s creation was not to produce children or provide sexual satisfaction or to keep the home but for the mutual happiness of man and woman. Like the Father of the bride, God Himself brought Eve to Adam.

There is not only an equality but a diversity between men and women. Eve was as different from Adam as Adam was different from Eve. But the differences were complementary. Because of the emotional and physical differences, Eve would supply what Adam lacked, and Adam would supply what Eve lacked. Eve would complete Adam as a “helper suitable for him” (Gen. 2:18, niv). The same Hebrew word used for “helper” in this instance is used again in Psalm 46:1 when it describes God Himself as being “our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” Rather than implying that Eve was somehow less because she was a helper, this term describes her godly characteristic of support for Adam.

God’s Story, (Nashville: W Publishing, 1997). 

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•  The choice to listen
•  The choice to forgive
•  The choice to pray

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