When Adam Met Eve....Was Adam one rib short?

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 

Question. When Adam Met Eve was Adam one rib short?

Answer.    No, he wasn't. 

Let's look at the word rib. The hebrew word for rib is really translated as "side", not a bad translation, huh? In fact, it makes perfect sense! For we are to co-exist always side by side, and equally fit to be equally matched. This is a safe translation because science (e.g., x-ray) has shown that every human-being, male and female has 12 ribs each --- neither one is short.

So while we can't be exactly sure what it is that God removed or used.  We do know the bible accounts that He did use something from Adam's body. Whatever that something was, it was intended to make the two one. The fact of the matter is, God created a formula hidden inside the marriage convenant that is a mystery.  So what is God getting ready to do for you today, in you today, right now as you're reading this?

First, things first though, let's look at what He did for Adam and Eve. God allowed Adam to get to a point of being consciously aware that he needed a mate comparable to him. Insert Praise dance here! God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam. Here we see the desire awakened in Adam, that gave God the permission if you will, to create the opportunity for the Creator to create right time, create right circumstance and the right opportunities that are one of a kind...unique to Adam. But also unique to Eve as well. Here we also see the first surgery and surgeon at work, as a result of those unmet needs. Now, while adam slept, great things were taking place in his future. Things that he couldn't see or control. Yet when he was awaken from his slumber and God presented Him with his helpmate he was blown away by the reality of it all. He was in awe of her. It was love at first sight. But prior to that, God tasked him with a garden to tend, animals to name, before he engaged Adam in the love game. God our Father and Provider showed by example  what is expected from Adam. He provided for Adam an opportunity to be a provider like Himself. God supplies.

Second, it was God who brought Eve to Adam. God the ultimate "give-away father". Just as Adam was unaware of the activities taking place to prepare him for his ideal match. Eve was also unaware of who God had prepared for her while she was yet to be created. Before she was even taken or made from Adam, God had a helpmate for already existing before her existence. God was working on both their behalf. For Adam God made him get to a place of being consciously aware Eve was missing from his life. For Eve, for her to know that while she was yet to be created God had already done that which she would desire, before she could ever ask or imagine. God surprises.

Are you that girl that is always the brides-maid, never the bride? Or that guy that is always the best-man, never simply "the man". Do you find that everyone around you is getting hitched or dating the finest there is, living the life that is, and yet you are still waiting? Still waiting on that special something to take place in your romantic life? God sustains!

God is waiting for you to recognize that you have a hidden desire that can only be met by Him, that can only be met by His doing and will. That will require you dying to self, (made un-conscious) so He can do His thing that is uniquely created for your circumstance. Are you there yet? Hold on, the change will come and is coming!

Check out my next blog on Adam's response and recognition to what God had done.