"The God Who Knows Before We Ask"
Adam was the first human. The first woman was formed from his rib, meaning there was no woman on the earth beforehand to populate it. When God brought her to Adam, he called her "woman," because she had been taken out of man. Later, Adam named her Eve, because she would become the mother of all living. Through the man and the woman together, God's purpose for mankind to fill the earth would begin to unfold.
This led me to reflect on something Jesus later said:
"Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him." (Matthew 6:8)
Before Eve was created, God brought the living creatures to Adam so he could name them. As each animal came before him, Adam carefully observed God's creation. He saw the beauty, order, and diversity within every kind.
Yet after naming them all, the Scriptures say that no helper was found who was a complement of him.
Before Adam thought this, God had already spoken:
"It is not good for the man to continue by himself. I am going to make a helper for him, as a complement of him."
When the time was right, God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep, formed the woman from his rib, and brought her to him.
Adam's response is one many of us can relate to when something long awaited finally arrives:
"This is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh."
How often do we pray for something, only to discover later that God was already preparing the answer before the request was ever spoken?
Then Jehovah God said: “It is not good for the man to continue to be alone. I am going to make a helper for him, as a complement of him.” Now Jehovah God had been forming from the ground every wild animal of the field and every flying creature of the heavens, and he began bringing them to the man to see what he would call each one; and whatever the man would call each living creature, that became its name. So the man named all the domestic animals and the flying creatures of the heavens and every wild animal of the field, but for man there was no helper as a complement of him. So Jehovah God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, he took one of his ribs and then closed up the flesh over its place. And Jehovah God built the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman, and he brought her to the man. Then the man said: “This is at last bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh. This one will be called Woman, Because from man she was taken.
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