Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
1 Corinthians 11:8-9
For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
When Adam needed a helper, God provided for him a wife. Not a pet. Not another man. Not a brother. Not a father. Not two women. Not a sister. Not a mom. God made Adam a wife.
Adam did not need a fur baby to help him. He didn't need a bro to high five him. He didn't need a brother to understand or a dad to instruct him. He didn't need multiple women either for different uses or because his appetite was more than one could satisfy. He didn't need a sister to look after or a mom to look after him. If Adam was going to fulfill his role and God's purpose for his life, Adam needed a wife.
A wife was the only thing that would do to help Adam do the only thing he was called to do: be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth with the image of God, conquer and cultivate it, subdue it and bring it under the headship of its Lord.
We must recapture the Christian vision of world conquest and that begins with husbands and wives, together reformatting the landscape and the atmosphere around them.
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