Genesis 2:15-25 A hole in your heart.

15Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

16And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden, 17but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

18The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh. 22And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him. 23And the man said:

“This is now bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called ‘woman,’

for out of man she was taken.”

24For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

25And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

While researching verse 21, I found an interesting article https://www.gotquestions.org/Adams-rib.html on this verse. The Hebrew term actually means side. I encourage you to read it.

Women “for out of man she was taken.”, to stand alongside of him.

I also find it interesting, Gods interaction with Adam. He brings all the livestock, birds, beasts and every living creature to Adam “to see what he would name each one”.

What was it like for Adam to be in the presence of God, interacting with Him? 

This is what God designed us for and without Him we basically have a hole in our heart that we try to fill with other things. Drugs, alcohol, sex etc. 

Our “hole” won’t be satisfied until we return to our maker. 

What are you satisfying your “hole” with?

Blessings, David