A Help Meet for Adam

Through His wondrous grace we find that the Lord God says, "It is not good that the man should be alone." How lovely to see that in all that God has provided, it is not complete without a help meet for him. So it says in verses 19 and 20, "And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam.... But for Adam there was not found a help meet for him." Of all the beautiful animals that this world had, nothing corresponded to Adam.
So it is that God forms for the man from Adam's side, one who is his help meet, his like. How vital this is! Often we hear people say, "Well, the person that he's marrying is a Christian," as if that is all that really matters. It is important that the partner be a child of God. The Word of God is very clear on that. "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers." But that is not enough. The Christian home, the home that God intends it to be, will not result simply from two who belong to Christ being joined together. What the man needs is one who will be willing to walk in the same path of faith as he does—one who wants to walk to please God and who has the same exercise of heart and conscience.
In the third chapter we find that God had not idly given instruction to guard the garden. There was an enemy and the enemy appeared. He sought to introduce into the garden disobedience to God which would result in the loss of the garden. He first approached Eve with a very subtle kind of attack that, first of all, questioned what God had said and then contradicted what God had said. But what we have shown here in a most striking way is the picture of Eve failing in her responsibility to be a help meet.