Interestingly, God paraded before Adam all the animals, and Adam named them.  Picture this scene for a moment.  God had just indentified a need in Adam’s life, and He also proposed a solution; then He asked Adam to name the animals!  I imagine God smiled as Adam searched for that very special “helper” He had designed just for him.  Adam probably thought, “no that elephant couldn’t be the one, it’s too big.  Or, that giraffe couldn’t be it, for the neck is too long for my liking!” 

“He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.  So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.  But for Adam no suitable helper was found.”  Gen. 2:19-20


God was giving Adam time so he would understand his great need for a companion.  He saw that all the animals had a perfect partner, and he knew that his partner could not possibly come from the animals.  He trusted God as the only One who could create someone who would perfectly correspond to his needs.   Ladies, we were and are the jewel of creation yet to come, the last thing that God created was a beautiful princess.  That is us….WOW!  We were it, the most prized of God’s creation.  Picture this scene when woman was created……..

“So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh.  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.”  Gen 2: 21-23
 

“We have often heard it said that God did not take Eve from Adam’s head so that she would rule over him or from his feet so that she would be his slave.  There is some real truth in this.  But what kind of picture is God giving to us by taking Eve from Adam’s rib?  Our ribs protect our most vital organs.  Our ribs protect our heart.  This would be one of Eve’s ministries in the life of her husband—she would give protection to his heart!”  (from the book Love Life for Every Married Couple)

How cool is that, we have a pretty awesome and precious responsibility.