UNDERSTANDING THE MARRIAGE COVENANT 7

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church; and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word. Ephesians 5: 22-26 (KJV)

Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."Genesis 2:18 (NASB)

 One fundamental issue in understanding the marriage covenant is to find out the reason why God created the woman and why He instituted marriage? I cannot claim to know all the answers to these pertinent questions but reading the word of God and taking it literally helps me to put a lot of things in perspective.

I will therefore attempt to answer the question why God created the woman. Before I continue I must say that if you are a Christian reading this, please note that what I will be saying are not my words but what the Bibles says. On the other hand if you are a non-christian reading this piece, may I ask you to consider carefully, if what I will be saying makes sense.

Permit me to be a little philosophical by saying that everything created or invented is created not for itself but for some thing else. Cars were invented not for themselves but for the purpose of ease of  transportation for man. A vacuum cleaner was invented not for itself but for the purpose of helping to do something outside of itself.

In the same vein, the woman was created by God not primarily for herself but for the man. Now let us examine the scriptures carefully.

Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."Genesis 2:18 (NASB)

The above passage can be rewritten as follows:

Then the Lord God said, it is inappropriate for the man to be  incomplete, I will make FOR HIM someone that will fill the emptiness in him. 

In other words, God saw that man had a need even though the man did not realize his need at that time and so God made the woman to fulfill that need. However, I must say here that this is not meant to propose that the woman is a "need machine" a tool to be used by the man to satisfy his desires but the point being made here is that the woman was created to fill the void in the life of the man. May I make bold to say that the man may never be complete at least in the eyes of God, if he does not have an "Eve" in his life; a God given wife.

The woman is in no way inferior to the man because she is actually what makes the man complete. She is the helper suitable for the man. A helper is usually someone who has what you do not have that you badly need. In so many ways a helper actually occupies a more privileged position than the one being helped as far as the issue at hand is concerned.

It is therefore not about what you want, your rights, desires and pleasures! It is about helping your partner be the man or woman God wants him or her to be by fulfilling their roles in the marriage.

More next time.

God bless you.

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