#noteasilybroken

“Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.“ (Ecclesiastes 4:12)

This verse has such a powerful meaning. Our GOD is the Holy Trinity. And we are united to Him through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through His Sacrifice for us on the cross. His Love ran red.

Jesus united us to Himself as one body, though many parts. We—the church—are Jesus’ bride.

“There is one body, but it has many parts. But all its many parts make up one body. It is the same with Christ. We were all baptized by one Holy Spirit. And so we are formed into one body.” (1 Corinthians 12:12-13)

“And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” (Revelation 21:2)

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it” (Ephesians 5:25)

And in marriages where the couple that puts God as #1, front and center, will last.

God created us to live in community, together and together in Christ!

The verse speaks to this by saying: “Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves.” We were never created to live apart from each other.

God created Adam and then saw that he was lonely here on earth. So He gave him a suitable companion. He then creates a woman for him; Adam then calls her a woman because God created her from one of Adam’s ribs. Then he names her Eve.

“Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him.’ So he took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and all the birds. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and that is how they all got their names. So the man named all the birds and all the animals; but not one of them was a suitable companion to help him. Then the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, he took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the flesh. He formed a woman out of the rib and brought her to him. Then the man said, “At last, here is one of my own kind— Bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh. ‘Woman’ is her name because she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one.”

(Genesis 2:18-24 GNT)

The second part of this passage mentions that God formed woman from one of man’s ribs. Signifying that they’re the same being and they become one. That’s why they leave their families to begin a new one. It shows God created them to be equals—a suitable companion.

I love this quote that speaks to this:

“The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”