After the animals were created by God, Adam was assigned the task of giving them names: “Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name” (Genesis 2:19). That must be a lot of cognitive work, naming the different animals. In Genesis 2:20, we are told that Adam gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. Imagine Adam living alone in the vast Garden of God and managing all the animals and vegetation. Definitely, he must have been super busy and in all his busyness, no animal was a suitable helper for Adam. Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him” (Genesis 2:18). The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” (Genesis 2:18) One lesson from God’s original intention of marriage is the fact the God identified the need for the man to have a helper. The woman is a helper to the man. God saw that it was not good for the man to be alone in the Garden, and therefore brought in the woman. Before God brought Eve to Adam, God already gave Adam a task of taking care of the Garden. Adam was a full time husbandman and a steward of the Garden of Eden. He ensured that the animals and plants were well taken care of. Therefore, God brought in Eve to help Adam with the task assigned to him. However, many people in marital unions have gone for helpers that do not have assigned tasks. Some men are yet to identify their purposes in life and no helper comes to do nothing. If the couple are running different assignments, there is bound to be a conflict. Eve was sent to help Adam in fulfilling his purpose and vision. In the same way, Adam was expected to ensure that Eve remained in the purpose and call of God. Don’t you think God was aware when the serpent deceived Eve? Why did he blame Adam? “But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” (Genesis 3:9,11). Adam had a task and Eve was his perfect helper to help him work this task. However, the devil saw an opportunity to engage Eve in a conversation and ultimately deceived her to eat the forbidden fruit. Eve in turn gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Adam’s helper became Adam’s greatest fall. What could have been wrong? The devil used deception to lie to the woman. The devil told the woman that “God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5). This was a big lie because God had already created the man and the woman in His own image (Genesis 1:27). So Eve did not need the fruit to be like God. This deception is still used by the enemy to fight against God’s plan of marriage. The woman taken from the rib of man has never been inferior to man. In fact, a helper is either of the same strength as you or better still stronger than you. The fallen man has been found guilty of maltreating the woman but at the beginning, it was not so. The woman was a co-steward in the business of the man. When we identify that we are working together as a couple to advance the purpose of our assignment, certain conflicts will cease and the enemy will be kicked out of our home. Dear God, help us to know that you created both the man and the woman to work together to achieve your purpose. Help us to understand our roles in this assignment in order to know what to do at every point in time. I pray that couples will understand the principle of “suitable helper” and be ready to work together to achieve your purpose in Jesus’ name.
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