Fascinating

From the beginning God positioned this relationship of man and woman in a unique context. Having created Adam, God said, ‘It is not good for man to be alone’ (Genesis 2:18), so He created a partner for him. Man’s aloneness was an impediment to his complete fulfillment.

I find that to be thought provoking, because in a very real sense, man was not alone. God was with him. Adam experienced companionship in his relationship with God…yet God said that man was ‘alone.’ Interestingly, He made this pronouncement before Adam’s disobedience ruptured his relationship with God. So when God says, ‘It is not good for man to be alone,’ He must have had in mind a kind of companionship uniquely human to help meet Adam’s human finitude in a way that God designed and orchestrated (I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah pg. 13, emphasis mine).

I pulled this quotation from a longer excerpt. But it’s so profound…so thought-provoking that I could not wait any longer to share it with you all. If you have not read any of Ravi’s works, I urge you to pick up his book on love and marriage. Reading it for me felt like all my thoughts and hopes and beliefs were clarified, refined, and expressed with laser-sharp accuracy which I could never have accomplished.

Edited May 2008