In the record of God’s creative activity recorded in Genesis 1, five times we read His evaluation of what He created: And God saw that it was good...(vv.10, 12, 18, 21, 25). At the end of the sixth and final day of creation, which culminated in the creation of man, God saw all that he had made, and it was very good (v.31). One of the man’s responsibilities was to name all the animals and birds. After he had finished that task God made a somewhat startling statement: The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone" (Genesis 2:18). The reason was that ...for Adam no suitable helper was found (Genesis 2:20). God responded by creating Eve as a helper suitable for Adam. Eve was created to be a helper comparable or suited to Adam’s needs, one who complements and corresponds to him, one who fills up his empty spaces.

Adam Clarke notes that Eve was created to be a counterpart of Adam, one formed from him, and a perfect resemblance of his person, possessing neither inferiority nor superiority, but being in all things like and equal to him. Matthew Henry comments that Eve was not taken out of Adam’s head to rule over him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

If sinless man, in a perfect environment and in continual fellowship with an infinite God, needed another human being to fill up his empty spaces, how much more do we. When is the last time you thanked God for the one he gave you to fill up your empty spaces? When did you last tell your spouse how much he or she means to you?