Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
Our world seems to be going through a shift in its paradigm...
Marriage is slowly changing from something more than a man and a woman -- to include a man "married" to a man, or a woman "married" to a woman.
Many states in the US are now considering changing laws to include such marriage definitions as legal relationships.
Even a quick glance at this passage, however, gives you a clear understanding of God's reason for marriage to only be between a man and a woman. There is a purpose for it -- to be "helpmeets" to each other.
Adam could find no suitable mate in God's other creatures (not even "man's best friend,") and so God created a special mate -- one from man's own body.
The fact that they were naked together, and had no shame, points to the intimacy of their relationship. It also points to what Heaven will be like as well -- a place where we all will have a relationship so close that we will "have nothing to hide" from each other.
Not that we will be "naked" in Heaven -- but that we will be as transparent to each other.
Consider what your current relationship is to your fellow Christian brothers and sisters... Are you developing close bonds? Or staying a bit distant?
Remember -- these are the ones with whom eternity will be spent!
