Some Simple Truths

Song: How Firm A Foundation

Scripture: Genesis 2:18-25

"It is not good that the man should be alone.” God knows what is good and what is not good for man. He commands what is good. He forbids what is bad. It’s that simple.

“I will make him a help suitable for him.” God made woman to be a help to man. A man is happiest when he lets his woman help. A woman is happiest when she helps her man. It’s that simple.

“And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast… and every fowl.” Animal life was not the product of chance mutations over eons of time. Mature animal life was formed by God from the ground in an instant. It’s that simple.

“Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.” God put man over creation, permitting him to name each living creature. Regardless of what the scientist says, man is different from beast. It’s that simple.

“Man shall leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife.” If man and woman are to forsake family for one another, ties to job, to friends, to comrades must be forsaken also. That’s the sense of “leave” and “cleave.” It’s that simple.

“And they shall be one flesh.” When God says that man and woman are “one flesh,” they are no longer two, but one. “What God joined together, let not man put asunder.” It’s that simple.

Jason Moore