1. Genesis 2:7-17. God created man. God provided abundantly for man. God related to man & man to God. God instructed man on what his work would be, and what he would eat. Genesis 2:20a. God enabled man to know things (classify/name the animals).
2. Genesis 2:18. God spoke a key component of the reality of man’s psyche into existence. “It is not good that the man should be alone.” God spoke the reality/challenge into man’s life & He created the solution to the reality/challenge.
Unfortunately, this truth spoken by God has been used by man & the devil to ensnare and destroy man. We are not intimately familiar with God’s spoken reality and His solution to it. God is redeemed man’s first relationship.
God is redeemed man’s foundational relationship. God is man’s pivotal relationship. It is not good that the man should be alone is a reality that comes after this foundation has been laid. This foundation is laid by God with our surrender of our will and wants.
We have distorted the order of the relationships. The desires of believers in Christ mimic those of unredeemed man in that we do not pursue the fullness of the foundational relationship, nor the instruction of God in building our secondary relationships.
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