“A DEEP SLEEP!”

Genesis 2:21-25                                                         (ESV)

“21 So the LORD GOD caused “A DEEP SLEEP” to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

22 And the rib that the LORD GOD had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

23 Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." 

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.”

There isn’t a word of Scripture that was placed there by accident.  ALMIGHTY GOD orchestrated HIS WORD being written for HIS purpose.  Why then did he find it necessary to explicitly say that Adam was caused to be in “A DEEP SLEEP” when Eve was created?  Why couldn’t GOD just have Created her the same way HE Created Adam?  

Those of us who have been in “A DEEP SLEEP”, such as the drug induced coma I experienced in 2007, can attest that we had absolutely no input in decisions being made in/with our lives, nor the miracles performed.  Although a rib was taken from Adam, Eve was Created by ALMIGHTY GOD.  Adam had no input in her formation at all.  Adam was gifted with Eve, but she wasn’t to be treated like a child’s toy, put away when she wasn’t being used.  He was supposed to “hold fast to his wife”, similar to an extremely valuable possession!  

How many marriages wind up in trouble because a spouse treats the other like a favorite toy, placing them on a shelf where they are tired of playing with them?  When husbands try to be a (small letters) god instead of directing her to ALMIGHTY GOD, he quickly finds out that he isn’t equipped to GOD, especially when he doesn’t know GOD IN THE FLESH, JESUS!  We cannot be something we were not intended to be in the first place!  

What were you designed to be?  If you are a man like Adam, your design is to “hold fast to his wife”.  GOD has created a perfect match FOR YOU!  Waiting on HIM to introduce her to you can be a challenge.  Treating her according to Scripture can be an even larger challenge!  Sometimes we may need to quit trying to help GOD and fall into “A DEEP SLEEP”, so HE can receive ALL THE GLORY???