Week 3

Today in lecture, Brother Griffin explained the significance of Eve being (symbolically) created from Adam’s rib. God could have fashioned Eve from Adam’s cranium, his calf, or any other part of his body, but taken from the rib seems to signify a sense of partnership as in equals side by side. Women and men are meant to be equal partners in a relationship and anything else is contrary to the plan of happiness. As Brother Griffin began talking about his wife, my heart swelled as he recounted how he was “married to an absolute angel and a daughter of God who [he loves] with all [his] heart.”

Culturally, Satan has done all he can to convince us that dads are misogynistic or dense, kids get in the way of self-fulfillment and achieving dreams, or moms are strict and don’t listen to their children. This way, we degrade our partners or downgrade our spouses, but when Brother Griffin remarked about his wife, I felt the truth in his words. I realize that this is the way I want to feel about someone and the way I want someone to feel about me. Men and women are given divine roles that compliment eachother. Without each part, the whole system wouldn’t flow together perfectly, but because each has their own responsibilities, it creates a balanced mechanism. God never intended for us to go through life alone, nor did he intend for us to feel inferior to our spouses. He gave women to man as a “help meat”, but also gave men to women for a “help meat” for women (Genesis 2:18). In this way, each is helping each other to fill in the gaps of responsibility. This is exactly the kind of team God had in mind to raise the future generations of His beloved children.