The Art Of MarriageНамуна

A Suitable Helper

Loneliness is a modern day epidemic. It transcends culture and geography. Loneliness is the exception that God identified when he declared that His creation was ‘good’. God’s antidote was the creation of a ‘suitable helper’.

The word helper ‘ezer’ in Hebrew used in Genesis 2:8 means one that is designed to be a corresponding and equal partner for Adam. There is no sense of subordination stated or implied or even hinted in this text. 

Culture has relegated many women throughout the ages to a role that was inferior to the role assigned to her by her creator. 

Jesus addressed the diminishing of the relationship between a man and a woman in Matthew 19:8(NIV): “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But, it was not this way from the beginning”.

We are surrounded by lonely husbands and wives who are burdened through the journey of life. Depression, the circumstantial type, is rampant as people try to conform to societal pressures that define the roles of a husband and wife which are in direct conflict with the intentions of the creator. 

Marriage is intended to have corresponding and equal partners. Marriage is designed to fulfill purpose and enjoyment in the embrace of true emotional, physical and spiritual bonding. Marriage is man and wife, in the covenant relationship of love and companionship. 

If we go back to the beginning and the initial intention of God,  we will find true contentment.