Daily Devotional Day 3 Engaged or Married Couples:
:Writters Statement:
Todays devotional has really touched my heart in all right places. It is one of the funniest and truest descriptions I've read about the true meaning of marriage/love.
Filling the Gaps
It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.
Genesis 2: 18
God created Adam in a state of isolation in the garden; he had no human counterpart. So God fashioned a women to meet his need for intimacy. In the original text, the Hebrew word for "suitable helper" means "one matching him." Adam needed someone who could complement him because he was inadequate by himself. And this illstrates a third purpose of marriage: to complete one another.
Perhaps you saw the original "Rocky" film before Sylvester Stallone started spinning off sequels left and right. Do you remember the love relationship Rocky had with Adrian in "Rocky"? She was the little wallflower who worked in the pet shop, the sister of Pauly, an insensitive goon who worked at the meat house and wanted to become a collector of debts for a loan shark.
Pauly couldn't understand why Rocky was attracted to Adrian. "I don't see it," he said. "What's the attraction?"
Do you remember Rocky's answer? I doubt that the scriptwriters had any idea what they were saying, but they perfectly exemplified the principle for a suitable helper from Genesis 2. Rocky said, "I don't know, fills gaps I guess."
"What's gaps?"
"She's got gaps, I got gaps. Together we fill gaps."
In his simple but profound way, Rocky hit upon a great truth. He was saying that he and Adrian each had empty places in their lives. But when the two of them got together, they filled those blank spots in one another. And that's esactly what God did when he fashioned a helpmate suitable for Adam. She filled his empty places, and he filled hers.
Have you given much thought to the gaps you fill in your mate's life, and vice versa? There's never been any doubt in my mind that I need Barbara, that she fills my "gaps." I need her because she tells me the truth about myself, both the good, the bad and otherwise. I need Barbara
to add a different perspective to relationships and people. She also adds variety and spice to my life.
Discuss:
What gaps do you fill in each other's life?
Writers Answer:
I know that David complements me so much its funny. Everything I'm weak in he is strong in or can help me with. Personality wise we are totally different and similar in different area(s). But we have the same family values, life values, and we both have a great passion to serve the Lord with our lives. We also have interest in alot of the same things as well.
That God would give you a thankful heart for these differences.
Writers Conclusion:
I believe that true love is something that God blesses us with and its usually a person we least exspect or someone we've passed by or possibly never met and will on one God sent day.
David's Comment:
This fact is so true. Before I met Haylee, I was looking constantly, and asking God over and over, "Is this the one." But when God brought Haylee into my life, I knew she was the one because she filled those gaps. I Knew I had found the one God had prepared for me.
*Please comment on what u got out of today's devotion and any addtional prayer request u may have.
Want to reach the writer(me) or David:
email or msn @t:
Jonesfinest_19@hotmail.com
(me)
haylees_redneck@hotmail.com
(David)
:Writters Statement:
Todays devotional has really touched my heart in all right places. It is one of the funniest and truest descriptions I've read about the true meaning of marriage/love.
Filling the Gaps
It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.
Genesis 2: 18
God created Adam in a state of isolation in the garden; he had no human counterpart. So God fashioned a women to meet his need for intimacy. In the original text, the Hebrew word for "suitable helper" means "one matching him." Adam needed someone who could complement him because he was inadequate by himself. And this illstrates a third purpose of marriage: to complete one another.
Perhaps you saw the original "Rocky" film before Sylvester Stallone started spinning off sequels left and right. Do you remember the love relationship Rocky had with Adrian in "Rocky"? She was the little wallflower who worked in the pet shop, the sister of Pauly, an insensitive goon who worked at the meat house and wanted to become a collector of debts for a loan shark.
Pauly couldn't understand why Rocky was attracted to Adrian. "I don't see it," he said. "What's the attraction?"
Do you remember Rocky's answer? I doubt that the scriptwriters had any idea what they were saying, but they perfectly exemplified the principle for a suitable helper from Genesis 2. Rocky said, "I don't know, fills gaps I guess."
"What's gaps?"
"She's got gaps, I got gaps. Together we fill gaps."
In his simple but profound way, Rocky hit upon a great truth. He was saying that he and Adrian each had empty places in their lives. But when the two of them got together, they filled those blank spots in one another. And that's esactly what God did when he fashioned a helpmate suitable for Adam. She filled his empty places, and he filled hers.
Have you given much thought to the gaps you fill in your mate's life, and vice versa? There's never been any doubt in my mind that I need Barbara, that she fills my "gaps." I need her because she tells me the truth about myself, both the good, the bad and otherwise. I need Barbara
to add a different perspective to relationships and people. She also adds variety and spice to my life.
Discuss:
What gaps do you fill in each other's life?
Writers Answer:
I know that David complements me so much its funny. Everything I'm weak in he is strong in or can help me with. Personality wise we are totally different and similar in different area(s). But we have the same family values, life values, and we both have a great passion to serve the Lord with our lives. We also have interest in alot of the same things as well.
That God would give you a thankful heart for these differences.
Writers Conclusion:
I believe that true love is something that God blesses us with and its usually a person we least exspect or someone we've passed by or possibly never met and will on one God sent day.
David's Comment:
This fact is so true. Before I met Haylee, I was looking constantly, and asking God over and over, "Is this the one." But when God brought Haylee into my life, I knew she was the one because she filled those gaps. I Knew I had found the one God had prepared for me.
*Please comment on what u got out of today's devotion and any addtional prayer request u may have.
Want to reach the writer(me) or David:
email or msn @t:
Jonesfinest_19@hotmail.com
(me)
haylees_redneck@hotmail.com
(David)