Genesis 2:18 (God Fill Out the Blank)

၁ မိၤရှ့ ၂၂း၁၈

တၢ်လီၤဟိလၢကစၢ်ယွၤမၤပှဲၤ

When I was in Minnesota, a friend of mine asked a lady sat next do us a question. He asked, “when are you getting married? God said, “be fruitful and multiply.” She replied to him with a simple answer, “not every seed is going to grow” What a brilliant answer. As we are believers (Christians), we might miss a lot of things in our family. We might not be a good tree that bear fruits, we might not be a seed that grow, and we might need a lot of things to make us complete. However, we ought to know that God is the one who fill out our missing pieces in us.

လၢထံးလၢသီယွၤတ့လီၤတၢ်မနုၤတဖၣ်လဲၣ်?

· တ့လီၤပှၤကညီအဟံၣ်ခိၣ်ဒုး- မူခိၣ်

· တ့လီၤပှၤကညီအဟံၣ်ဒါ- ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်

· တ့လီၤတၢ်ကပီၤ- ထံၣ်တၢ်

· တ့လီၤတခံး, တၢ်မုၢ်တၢ်ဘိ, ထိၣ်ဖိလံၣ်ဖိ,

· တ့လီၤတၢ်ခဲလၢာ်န့ၣ်ဃုာ်ဒီးပှၤကညီ (အၤဒၣ်- ဂ့ၤ)

· တၢ်တဂ့ၤဘၣ်ထီၣ်ဖျဲးတဘီ,

o ၁ မိၤၡ့ ၂၂း၁၈, ဒီးယွၤစံးဝဲ, ပှၤကညီအိၣ်တဂၤဃီတဂ့ၤဘၣ်

o V20. The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal, but for the man no helper was found corresponding to him.

o So, God caused a deep sleep to Adam, he took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at the place

o V22. Then the Lord God made the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

o V23. When Adam saw his bride, he wowed…. “He said: this one, at last, is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called “woman,’ for she was taken from man.”

1. God Knows our problems

i. 2:18, It is not good for man to be alone

1. It’s good to be alone but not good to live alone.

§ Adam seems to support what God had said in verse 20

· When he named the animals; he probably recognized that he was alone. He could not do much of things when he was alone.

· He could play with animals, eat foods, swim, or do whatever in the Garden but this would not make him complete.

· The stage of single is good. You can flirt with many people but never feel complete.

· When someone feels incomplete it never goes away; and God recognized the incompleteness of Adam.

· Incomplete is just bad in general. And we can see that in Genesis.

· ကစၢ်ယွၤန့ၣ်အတ့လီၤတၢ်မ့ၢ်တဝံၤဘၣ်န့ၣ်တစံးဝဲလၢအဂ့ၤဘၣ်

o မုၢ်ခံနံၤဖဲယွၤတ့တၢ်- တစံးဝဲလၢအဂ့ၤဘၣ်, တတဲအါထီၣ်အဂ့ၢ်ဘၣ်

§ အတၢ်မၤတဝံၤ

· ၁ မိၤၡ့ ၁း၂၈, သၣ်ထီၣ်အါထီၣ်တသ့အဃိ

Relevant: We might face a lot of problem in our lives; Personal, friends, or family and we want to be alone. You can be alone but don’t live alone for it won’t solve the problem you have. Have you ever had a problem where you can’t keep it to yourself and need someone to help you solve your problem?

Illustration: Pandemic, you get a chance to be alone. But you can’t live alone. You want to spend time with your friends and family. Some people missing going back to church during the Covid. Some studies show that depression and mental illness rates going up because of the isolation.

Am not sure if Adam had depression, but God saw that it wasn’t good for him to be alone. ခီဖျိတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိ,ကစၢ်ယွၤတ့လီၤန့ၢ်အီၤတၢ်မၤစၢၤလၢအကြၢးဒီးအီၤလီၤ.

2. God Provides a suitable helper for him

§ တၢ်မၤစၢၤ(what does helper mean?)- ၂ မိၤၡ့ ၁၈း၄, မိၤၡ့အမံၤပှၢ် ဟဲဆူအအိၣ် ဃုာ်ဒီး အဒဲၣ်မုၣ် ဒီးအလံၤခွါခံဂၤ- ၁. စီၤက့ရၡိၣ် (အဂ့ၢ်ဒ်အံၤ, ယမ့ၢ်တ့မပှၤတမှံၤလၢတခီဘီမုၢ်) ၂. စီၤအလံၤဧ့စ့ၢ် (အဂ့ၢ်ဒ်အံၤ, ယပၢ်အကစၢ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်မၤစၢၤယၤ…)

§ အါဒၣ်တက့ၢ်ကစၢ်ယွၤမ့ၢ်ပှၤလၢအမၤစၢၤတၢ်

§ The helper provides what is lacking

· This human being (Adam) lacks companion (partner)

· Without Eve Adam could not complete

· (Gen 1: 28) God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.

· Without Eve this blessing could not come to be active. Eve is the one who activate the blessing. She is the key.

· Both male and females have equal authority. (Both of them get to subdue and rule), but they are ought to have different roles.

o As can see, Adam Job was to name the animals, also he named his wife

o For Eve, her role was to compliment (to be a suitable helper for Adam)

o As in a family, the parents also have roles; the husband work, the wife is taking care of the children.

o If both parents are working, who is going to nourish the kids with love and cares?

o And when parents are taking over each other roles in the family, most of the time the children become a good disobedient.

· And this woman is out of from his ribs.

· Therefore, when he saw Eve, he said, “the is the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh…”

· Adam and eve are ought to help each other to complete the mission God gave them.

· They must work together to accomplish the mission.

o To work together, they must listen to one another.

o As we are in a family, we must learn to take advise from our husband or wife. We can’t do things we only wish to do. We can’t do things on our own. There will never be peace when we don’t take advise from one another or listen to one another.

o As Eve is the rib of Adam, if they can’t work together, they could hurt each other badly. When your rib stabs you, it’s hurt.

Relevant: God provides a suitable helper for you, but do you let your suitable partner to help you. Do you work together? Many christens are in a bad relation between the spouse and the husband because they do not complement each other. And don’t see each other as helper. Most of them treat others better than their partner. Listen to others advise more than their husband and wife.

Illustration: As I was reading a book talk about crazy circle. It said that if you want your wife to respect you, love them properly. And you want your husband to love you respect him. This is what a complement love looks like.

Application: God knows our needs and he provided the needs; and we are to maintain and produce more of what God has given us, but how are we supposed to do that?

1. The husband and wife need to spend time together.

a. Adam didn’t have an earthly mom, earthly dad, same as eve. Both of you guys are strange if compare with your kids. You need to learn more about one another. Your kids will grow and depart from you, only you two will be left. So spend the journey and the time together.

2. Spend the time wisely

a. As times goes by you are getting older.

b. Both spend time with God, because that’s the only way will get you closer to God.

c. If only the wife spend time with God and the husband doesn’t, then the relationship might seem odd. Might have different understanding.

3. Spend time to forgive one another instead of making each other mad

30  There are no shortcuts when it comes to building a healthy, loving and caring family.

Tony Evans

Guiding Your Family (1991)

Tony Evans

a. Forgive, forgive, forgive- forgiveness is the key for healthy relationship.