Genesis 2:18–25 (ESV)

¹⁸Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” ¹⁹So out of the ground the Lord God 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. ²⁰The 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. ²¹So 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. ²²And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. ²³Then 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.” ²⁴Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. ²⁵And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

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“God saw everything that He had made, and behold it was very good” (Genesis 1:31).  However, God did not say it was all good until He had finished one last thing.  “The Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone” (Genesis 2:18a).   God said “good” was in contrast with not good (cf. 18).  What He is saying is that “good” is what brings forth, supports, enriches, and embraces life.  What is not good is that which does not bring forth life, and especially that which denies life.  God is saying that man without woman, even before sin entered the world, was not good.  God equates the oneness of man without woman with aloneness.  Though mankind was created to live in a perfect oneness of with our Creator, He created woman from the rib of the man (22) to keep the pain of loneliness and the sin of selfishness at bey. 

What was not good and then was very good was again not good when man ate the forbidden fruit.  That sin brought division between mankind and God and between the man and the woman and all of creation (cf. Genesis 3).  But in Christ Jesus, God restored the oneness man had with Him.  Jesus made Himself one with our sin and death.  Hebrews two verse nine says, “Because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God [Jesus] might taste death for everyone.”  All the division from our God and from each other and all the aloneness and forsakenness reaches its conclusion in death.  That is the death Jesus took upon Himself for us.  Jesus unifies us to Himself and destroys all our divisions from God with His blood.  

This side of heaven we see the evidence that things are not good—which entails all things that are against the bringing forth, embracing, and sustaining of life. The daily news proves the tensions or divisions within our families, communities, our nation, and with other nations.   Yet, even in our brokenness, by God’s gift of faith, we know that our Lord gives restoration by His Gospel: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believe in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).  As believers we can rejoice that our sins are forgiven.  Even those who live alone whether it is because of their own sin, or a divorce or abandonment, timing, circumstances, or death, they may look to the Lord in faith.  For all of us living in division and aloneness, Christ Jesus sanctifies us, reestablishing us in communion and oneness with God the Father and with each other so that He stands with us declaring: “Here am I, and the children God has given Me” (Hebrews 2:13 NIV).

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