Marriage, 7/10/2011

When was the first marriage recorded? It’s in Genesis 2. There in Genesis 2, before the Fall of Man, marriage was created and ordained by God. Indeed God is the first match maker.
Even before Genesis 2, in Genesis 1:28, right after God created Man, God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number.” The concept of marriage is already there. God did not just ordain marriage; God considered it as something good, something blessed. “Be fruitful and increase in number”, God said. You see, without marriage, it’s not possible for mankind to be fruitful and increase in number. Adam, by himself, without Eve, cannot bring forth Cain, Abel or Seth. If there never was Eve, then there will ever be just Adam, and millions of years later, it’ll still be only Adam — you and I will never exist. So as children, we should thank God that He has led our parents to get married so that we may exist.
After God created Adam, God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” In other words, the husband and wife are all tailor-made for each other. God looked at Adam, and He knew Adam isn’t complete, and He knew what would make him complete, and so He made Eve — a perfect complement for Adam. This is what is meant by “helper suitable for him”.