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Daily Devotion
DAILY DEVOTION
Not Alone
by Dan Kohn
There was perfection in the fullness of creation. There was love in action. Ultimately, there
was the "very good" of God--embraced in the richest form of love.
Genesis 2 is the expanded, detailed version of mankind's creation. It began with Adam and
His relationship with Good Orderly Direction.
God recognized an absence in His creation...a "love gap" He had plans to fill--
""It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable to him."" (vs.18)
So God performed the first "surgery" to satisfy Adam's need, in fulfillment of creation--
"So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was
sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the
Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken from man, and he brought her to
the man." (vss.21-22)
Human intimacy was now formed. Beyond the deep, "vertical" intimacy between God and
mankind, was holistic, "horizontal" intimacy between man and woman.
The first "love institution" had been formed. The richest form of human love was fashioned in
the oneness between a husband and a wife. Yes, in God's human creation plan there was
orchestrated an assurance that we would not be alone!
PERSONAL MEDITATION:
In God there was, and is, the wholeness of love;
Beyond human, its endowment is from above.
More than a mere emotion to be expressed;
In active love--needs can be best addressed.
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