Original Entry:
November 6, 2011
McMinnville, OR
But from the beginning of creation God made them male
and female. For this cause shall a man
leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife. Mark 10:6-7 KJV (Genesis 2:24-25)
After a message I
gave on the fall of man in the garden a young man texted, “So God made Eve for
Adam because God said, ‘it is not good for man to be lonely,’ right?” Nowhere
does it say that Adam was lonely, but that, “It is not good for man to be
alone.”
Alone is not the same
as lonely.
It is not good for a
man to be alone because he needs a “helpmate” in a woman. A good woman makes a good man great. A man is
incomplete without a woman.
I believe the adage,
“behind every good man is a good woman.”
It is not good for a
man to be alone.
In our passage for today
God says something we can’t ignore, “For
this CAUSE a man shall leave his father and mother.” Did you catch that?
Marriage is more than
not being alone. Marriage is deeper than
overcoming loneliness. Marriage is more
than meeting a man’s need for sex. Marriage is God’s great cause to be a living
parable between Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5), and of turning a boy into
a man.
After twenty years of
marriage Shanna has made me a better man.
She pushes me more than I want to be pushed. She teaches me how to love better than I have
loved. She sees what I do not see. She
believes in me when I do not believe in myself. She challenges me to be better
than I was.
If the man is the
head of the household, the woman is the neck!
God fulfilled his
great CAUSE of turning boys into men with women.
