Genesis 2:18-25; Psalm 128; Mark 7:24-30
In the first reading, the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a helper fit for him”. All that God created was good but when it came to man’s solitary state God himself said it is not good for man to be alone. Man is by nature a social creature. We are made to crave for company.
A man alone cannot propagate. Adam by himself was incomplete. God created Eve to complete Adam, to provide a society and to enable him to produce children. Does this mean that every man must have a wife? No. In 1 Cor.7:7–9 Paul says that celibacy is a good thing for the servant of God.
Does this equally suggest that every woman must be a wife? No. Genesis 2:18 simply sets the standard that a wife is the helper suitable for her husband. They are suitable or fit physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It was God’s own way of saying that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Like the Syrophoenician woman in the gospel we must make intercession for all demon possess marriages; gay and lesbianism; we must beg Jesus to heal our relatives and children who have deviated from the true path of life.
LET US PRAY
Lord Jesus, give us the light of your grace, that we may decide wisely concerning the person who will be our partner through life. Amen.
