Welcome to Walk with Me a daily devotional taking us through the bible, spoken in a way God might speak to us as he spoke to Adam and Eve walking through the Garden of Eden.
Today I share with you from the story of your creation. I made you from the dirt of the ground, sculpted you into your human shape, breathed into your nostrils the breath of eternal life giving you a living soul.
I planted you in the garden in the east of Eden, a place of utter delight, a place bursting with life, nourishing food and luxuriant beauty. I created trees and in the center of the garden I placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
I put you in the garden to care for it and gave you one command. Do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I wanted to spare you of its deadly effects. I wanted you to enjoy life to its fullest and not know the pains of evil and death.
I made a companion for you from your own flesh. Not subservient to you, but to stand beside you and complete you. The woman made from your flesh and bone became your perfect companion, a perfect partner. And for this reason, men will leave their fathers and mothers and unite with their wives throughout the ages and the two will become one flesh again.
Families will be the cornerstone of great societies for all time. Families are the bedrock of community. I invite you to join my family as we walk and talk together.
Ready – Genesis 2:4-25
Set – Genesis 2; Luke 1:26-66
Go – Genesis 1-2; Luke 1
Genesis 2:4-24
Adam and Eve
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed a man[c] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin[d] and onyx are also there.) 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.[e] 14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. 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. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam[f] no suitable helper was found. 21 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[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 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.”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.