Psalm 119:73-80
“Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments. Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice, because I have hoped in your word. I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant. Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight. Let the insolent be put to shame, because they have wronged me with falsehood; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts. Let those who fear you turn to me, that they may know your testimonies. May my heart be blameless in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame!
As you read and give thought to the first sentence, what comes into your mind? When the Psalmist states; “Your hands have made and fashioned me” do you reflect back to Genesis 2:7, “then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.” The Psalmist had full understanding of what God had done to make and fashion him, but it is apparent that many in our culture do not have any understanding. If you were to explore the fall of most great civilizations, it comes about when the man and wife system breaks down, and so goes the family and the nation.
In keeping with how God fashioned mankind let’s look at Genesis 2:15-18, “The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
God’s plan for man was never to sit and let someone else provide for you, it was to work and keep the garden of Eden. It matters not what your Eden is, work is part of God’s plan for your life. God has rules, we refer to them as laws or commands, precepts and statutes. It matters not if you are a believer or not, God is in charge and as a non-believer you may not like the law of gravity but if you step off a five-story building without a way to fly you’re going to not do so well.
From the beginning of time man has been a social person and he needs a helper fit for him. God is the one that is the Creator and everything He did He called good. We go back to Genesis 2:20b-24, to find out what God’s plan is for a man’s mate, this also goes against todays culture. “But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So, the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” This may come as a shock to some inside and out of the church, but God who has never made a mistake, made Eve a woman.
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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