Your Good Gift!
"Therefore a man shall leave his father and
mother and be joined to his wife, and they
shall become one flesh."
Genesis 2: 24
Everything God created in the six days of creation was “good.”
Light, land and seas, vegetation, heavenly bodies, creatures of
earth, all was good in His sight. As God looked back on the six
days of creation, He declared it all “very good” (Genesis 1: 31).
Using assessment of the apostle James, we might consider
creation to be a good gift of God: “Every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father
of lights” (James 1:17).
There was one part of creation God declared to be
“not good”—the fact that the man, Adam, was alone
(Genesis 2: 18). So God turned “not good” into “good”
by creating Eve, to be a counterpart to Adam in life.
Together they would be stewards of creation, a pattern God
declared as a prescription for humanity going forward. Man
and woman unite and “become one flesh” (Genesis 2: 24).
The gift of marriage became the crown jewel in God’s
creation. A gift—a relationship, an institution—that
would provide a foundation for the human race.
"Marriage was conceived and
born in the mind of God."
Max Lucado
