COMPANION

In the Genesis account we read, “Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him” (2:18). Once she is formed (2:19-23) we see for the first time in scripture this imperative, “A man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh” (2:24). The strange thing for this couple is they had no mother and father. This only makes it more important as a prophetic picture of a coming necessity.

Having a companion and starting the beauty of a male/female relationship is mentioned in the next verse, “And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed” (2:25). They become ‘one flesh’ and share each other shamelessly.

Companion is a term that is developed a little later because in Latin it means, ‘to eat bread together’ or to eat together. There is hardly a greater joy than eating bread with the companion “you have been joined to in one flesh.” Man and woman…bread and wine.
“So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one body.” Jesus