Are you married?

They ask me this right out of the blue and as many times as it has happened I never see it coming. I have been around for a while and they know me pretty well. Still they do not seem to understand that I am not married. None of them are more than eight or nine years old. Many of them are no more than six. None of them are boys. Boys do not seem to care, in fact I may be a man but I am a boy too and I still care very little.

Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Maybe Adam did not have a clue. The sons of Adam still do not believe it. God said it was not good for man to be alone. Man did not decide this. Strangely the verse that precedes Genesis 2:18 is this verse.

Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Correct me if I am mistaken but wasn’t it the woman God made for Adam that was the first to partake? It was man's beloved that the serpent targeted for deception. Was it Eve that Adam sacrificed the garden for? It was the church that Jesus left paradise to reclaim by being subject to the same curse of sin His beloved creation labored under.

These little women are indignant that a man should reach my age and not be attached to one of their kind. Their lovely little faces showing all the signs of bewilderment when the answer to their question is no. God made man and man had no idea he needed anyone. God made woman from man and for man and she demands to be wanted, desired, and needed. This is God’s plan. God made an `ezer and God expects that any man who makes a covenant with an `ezer of his choosing, to love her as Christ loves the church. He is to love his woman in the same way that he is loved by Jesus.

The man who thoroughly loves God and his neighbor is the only man who will love a woman ideally--who can love her with the love God thought of between them when he made man male and female. The man, I repeat, who loves God with his very life, and his neighbor as Christ loves him, is the man who alone is capable of grand, perfect, glorious love to any woman.                                              George Macdonald

But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.