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Just Right!


Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone.
I will make a helper who is just right for him."
Genesis 2:18






"You're so pretty, smart, and career oriented but why are you single? What's wrong with you? You must be picky!" As a 24 year old who will be 25 in a couple of weeks, I've been hearing this a lot lately. So much that when I go to my quiet place I ask myself, "is the reason that I'm single because I'm picky?" I was taken to Genesis 2 in my reading time one morning and I read, "Then the LORD God said, It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him (Genesis‬ ‭2‬:‭18‬ NLT)." I kept reading this verse because I realized that even in the beginning God desired so much for us! Even down to us not being alone. God is not blind to the fact that man doesn't want to be alone. He even said that it wasn't good. In the second portion of that same scripture God says he would make a helper who is just right for him. Immediately a huge smirk grew on my face. Why? Because God explains in that scripture that I'm just right for someone. When I dated people in the past I would try so hard to make it work with them knowing deep down inside that we were not equally yoked. However, the thought of loneliness never seemed too bright compared to cuddling and laying up next to someone who God didn't have for me. Do you wonder why those other relationships didn't work or why that guy didn't fully commit to you? The reason is because God did not make you just right for them.

So the LORD God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one. He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him. (‭Genesis‬ ‭2‬:‭19-20‬ NLT). When I read those scriptures I wanted to tell all the people that told me I was single because I was picky to shut up and fall back lol. But no seriously God gave Adam all the wild animals to see what he would name them. I believed God wanted to see if Adam was mature enough to identify his helper. Everybody that comes up to you and says sweet nothings or are nice looking to you doesn't have to be "the one." Just like Adam, I believe that God is looking to see if we are mature enough to identify who he has for us. In my own life I would date men and because they had some pretty great qualities I would want them to be "the one." I believe that God would bring those people in my life to determine if I was mature enough to see and act on the fact that they were not the men he had ordained for me to be with.

Now could it be that you and I are picky in our selections of "the one?" I believe that there is nothing wrong with having standards or certain expectations but I also believe that we should pray to God day in and day out so that we may desire the things of God. I pray daily that his will be done and not mine. Adam was given the opportunity to choose his helper. He didn't have to go with the first thing that came his way. And neither do you! I choose to believe that when God sends me "the one" I will know. Remember you are just right for someone so until then continue to dive into his word. Form a closer relationship with God. The Bible says, "Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect (Romans 12:2). Everyone who seeks or pursues you doesn't have to be "the one" just like every animal God brought Adam wasn't his helper. Adam was so in tuned with God that he knew out of all of those animals they were not his helper. I know that if I continue to seek God he will transform me into a new person by changing the way I think. I know that if I continue to seek God and be in tuned to him I too will know who I was made just right for and you will too.

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