"But for Adam there was not found an help meet for him." - Gen. ii. 20.
My soul, mark what is here said, for sure it is a sweet
scripture. Amidst all the works of God, "there was not one that could
be found an help meet for man." The inferior creatures could indeed
minister to his bodily comfort, but not to his soul. Eve herself, with
all her loveliness, must have failed in this particular. Both the woman
and her husband alike needed this help to the soul. How refreshing is
the thought, and what a lovely view doth it give us of God's grace and
mercy, that in the seed of the woman an help, in the fullest sense of
the word, was found both for time and eternity. Jesus in our nature
needed the church for his partner: and the church needed Jesus, and he
was, and is, the very Adam of whom our first father in nature, was but
the shadow, and Christ the substance. Yes, blessed Jesus! in thee we
trace this wondrous gift of God. Pause then, my soul, and add this
thought to the vast account: The same love which fitted thee with an
help meet in a Saviour, hath fitted thee, and will continue to fit
thee, with the supply of all thy need. It were to be wished, that every
child of God would never lose sight of this certain truth-that he must
have the fittest station in life, the fittest frame of mind and of
body, the fittest yoke-fellow, the fittest circumstances; in short, the
fittest mercies and the fittest trials; because everything is made
subservient to the divine glory in Jesus. Sweet thought! "He that
spared not his own Son, will with him also freely give us all things."
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