Genesis 2 - God breathed
You are not a random collection of molecules that came together by chance.
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Genesis 2 (ESV)
1 Thus
the heavens and the earth were finished,
and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done,
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
3 So God
blessed the seventh day
and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 When
no bush of the field was yet in the land
and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—
for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land,
and there was no man to work the ground,
6 and a mist
was going up from the land
and was watering the whole face of the ground—
7 then the Lord God
formed the man
of dust from the ground
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,
and the man became a living creature.
8 And the Lord God planted a garden
in Eden, in the east,
and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.
The tree of life was in the midst of the garden,
and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river
flowed out of Eden to water the garden,
and there it divided and became four rivers.
11 The name of the first is the Pishon.
It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.
13 The name of the second river is the Gihon.
It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush.
14 And the name of the third river is the Tigris,
which flows east of Assyria.
And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God
took the man
and put him in the garden of Eden
to work it and keep it.
16 And the Lord God
commanded the man, saying,
“You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
you shall not eat,
for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
18 Then the Lord God said,
“It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him a helper fit for him.”
19 Now out of the ground the Lord God
had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens
and brought them to the man to see what he would call them.
And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field.
But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.
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.
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Genesis 2 Summary
v1-3 - God completes the creation week with a day of rest, setting a pattern we continue to follow today.
v4-14 - The creation of man is re-described.
v15-17 - God establishes what is often referred to as the Covenant of Works. If Adam obeys, he will live, but if he disobeys, he will die.
v18-25 - After having Adam survey all of the animals that had been created, but none of them was a suitable helper/partner for Adam.
So God created Woman by taking her out of Man.
God places Adam and his newly created partner in the institution of marriage.
Dig Deeper
Yesterday we read about how God made man, both male and female, in His image and gave them dominion over all that He had created.
Chapter two elaborates on the value that God gave you in creation. Verse 7 states:
the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
In the Biblical languages, the word translated as 'breathed' can also mean 'spirit,' and both of these meanings are meant to be understood here.
Not only did God bring Man to life in much more intimate way than any of the other animals, but He created us so much in His image that He put His Spirit into us as well. It's this 'glory' that we've exchanged for the desires of sin (Romans 1:21-24).
Be reminded as you read this today of why it is that God loves you so much. He's literally put Himself into you, and His Son would go on to give Himself up so that God's image and Spirit could be completely restored in you.
AAA Prayer:
ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Father God, who created you in His image and glory;
ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Ask God to make His Spirit more and more evident in your life;
ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED:
