LONELY MEN

Genesis 2:18

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

When God made Adam he had it in mind that at the proper time he was going to make him a help meet, a wife. And so Eve was created. He put Adam asleep, and from his rib, created Eve, Adam’s wife. He had this in mind from the beginning. He knew man was going to be lonely. He also knew that man was going to need that loneliness filled with a helper and supporter. He was going to need someone to support and help him, NOT lead him, but help him and follow him. That was also going to be one of man’s purposes in life, to lead and take care of his wife.

But was Adam lonely on his own, or did God make him lonely? God allowed him to be lonely. He did this, because, as I said above, he wanted Adam to have a helper. Why didn’t he create them together if that was the case? That I have no idea. That is something we can ask God when we get to heaven. But the point is, he was intending to make Adam a wife from the beginning, and thus allowed Adam to become lonely, being one reason he created Eve.

I believe that God placed a hole in each of us men so that we would crave that companionship, to a woman. In doing so, we would peruse that companionship. So, why do men crave that companionship from a woman? I believe for 3 reasons, out of many.

1. To tend to the earth. He knew that Adam was going to need a companion to help him tend to God’s creation. Genesis 1:28,

Rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

2. It was also so we could populate the earth. For as Genesis 1:28 also says,

God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it.

3. believe that he made us sexual beings and we would need that companionship so we could, not only populate the earth, and take care of the earth, but also release that sexual frustration we would build up. And trust me, the majority of men don’t lose their sex drive until they are way up there in age, if they do at all. So God made us lonely by placing a hole within us that only a woman was able to fill, in marriage. He knew what he was doing when he created us. He had a purpose for everything he did. Creating men to be lonely so that a woman could fill that hole was part of that purpose. And it was for that reason that women were made for man, as 1 Corinthians 11:9 says,

Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

It was God’s perfect wisdom that he did this. God knew that men were always going to need women. It was in God’s great care that he allowed man to be lonely and need the opposite sex to fill that loneliness. We are people who need each other. God made us this way. And when it comes to men, we need this so very much. We need female companionship. If it wasn’t true God would not have said, it is not good for man to alone.