Just Say Hi

The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”

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.” 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.

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the opening. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man.

“At last!” the man exclaimed.

   “This one is bone from my bone,
      and flesh from my flesh!
   She will be called ‘woman,’
      because she was taken from ‘man.’”

This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.

Genesis 2:15-25 NLT

There is so very much contained in these verses. There are several things I could talk about that God has been speaking to me, but in context with my loneliness, this is what God said to me:

See, I have been in Atlanta for over two years now. I have been alone this entire time. And, as some of you know, I am currently not attending church, for various reasons, but that's another blog. In fact, I am really not serving the Lord with the exception of trying to encourage people when the opportunity presents itself. Well, this week God said, "I have placed you in the Garden, but you have yet to tend and watch over it" Ouch!

To some that may not sound like a great revelation, but it is what God clearly spoke to me about why He has not introduced me to my wife yet. He says I need to get involved and begin to tell people about how he delivered me from a rotten life that resulted in becoming a homeless, helpless, and hopeless drug addict. Ouch again! It's time to get busy.

So what I also get from this is that I have been in a deep sleep. Not only a deep sleep, but I am also missing a rib and that piece of my flesh is currently wide open! So he said:

But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them, for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said,

   “Awake, O sleeper,
      rise up from the dead,
      and Christ will give you light.”

Ephesians 5:13-14 NLT

Wow. The divine alarm clock has been ringing and I pushed snooze-control one too many times already!