THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER
What is beauty? According to the Merriam Webster dictionary beauty
is the qualities in a person or a thing that gives pleasure to the senses or
the mind. How interesting.
Walking through the book of genesis I came across Adam who
was wowed by one of the greatest creation of GOD.
Let’s begin from Genesis 1:26-27, “And GOD said, let us make
man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish
of the sea, and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 , So GOD
created man in HIS own image; HE created him in the image of GOD;HE created them male and female.”
Take a look at the play of pronouns here and note it very
well. Referring to the same creature yet uses a singular pronoun and a plural
one simultaneously. The pronoun them is further splitted into male
and female in verse 27.
A better understanding of these verses is seen in Genesis 2:21-22,
“So the LORD GOD caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. GOD
took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place. Then the LORD GOD made
the rib HE had taken from man into a woman and brought her to the man”. This
confirms the them we saw in chapter one.
Now let’s continue, before the creation of woman in Gen
2:21-22, the idea or promise to get man a helper was first mentioned in verse
18. Since it was the era for creation was expecting the creation of woman to
follow suit right after the idea came about, but interestingly HE gives man
another job to do, that is to call the names of the wild animals and birds HE (GOD)
had created to keep Adam busy and working.
When it was finally time to create woman the hidden beauty
and glory of man; then again GOD causes Adam to fall into deep sleep, where he performs the first ever operation, because
bible says GOD took the ribs and closed again the flesh at that place.
GOD could have performed this operation without man sleeping
but HE chose to cause him to sleep. I don’t know how many of us have undergone
surgery before, but if you have, you know and understand the pains involved
before, during and after the surgery.
Moving on, Gen 2:23, And the man said; this one, at
last, is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called woman,
for she was taken from man.
An absent Adam
during the creation of woman rises up from deep sleep, wowed by what he sees
which causes him to profess the processes used in creating woman.
POINTS TO NOTE
1. In
Gen 1:27 the bible testifies of the presence of woman in man. The pronoun
(THEM) used. Glory hidden in man. 1cor 11:7
2. In
Gen 2:18-19, GOD kept Adam busy with him by tasking him to name the wild
animals and birds.
3. In
Gen 2:21 GOD causes Adam to sleep deeply in order to bring out a hidden beauty (woman).
All am trying to say with these analogy is that,
there is always a hidden beauty (glory) in man , and the best person to bring
this out is GOD. Note the processes
used.
a. The
idea to bring forth such beauty is
conceived
b. GOD
then gets you busy with HIM through work
c. HE
then puts you to deep sleep where you are free from pain, all distraction, and
any other thing except GOD.
d. Then
finally when HE is done with your miracle you wake up professing the
testimonies.
There are a bunch of prophesies spoken over your life
,a whole lot of wonderful things that will make your life beautiful. Learn to
be patient and wait on GOD and you will rise from the deep sleep like Adam to profess
the process of your beauty as a testimony unto others.
Beauty created by GOD is not subjective to lie on the
face of the beholder, but very objective
THANK YOU.
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