God can be alone, for in Him are all the attributes of perfection. He is in three persons, and so was never alone in one sense - there was always the Father, who is love, the Son, who is the object of that love, and the Spirit of love between them. But man is a creature and cannot stand by himself. God, in His love, thought up the wonderful idea of home—man and woman together, one flesh, and one mind and heart. God created the home as the perfect triangle—the man, the woman and the Lord, and a threefold cord is not quickly broken (Ecclesiastes 4:12). As long as the Lord is on His point of the triangle, the edifice is sure. Then home life is to be centered on the Lord, as each encourages and prays for the other.
It was not a physical image, for God is Spirit (John 4:24), and a spirit hath not flesh and bones (Luke 24:39). The physical descriptions of God are figures to teach our childish hearts some of the realities of His great love. No one knows the exact area or the full meaning of this image and likeness; I believe it refers to the trinity of our nature.
God is a God of order. All things that exist are in groups that are interrelated. The farther science advances, the more it is realized that all things are interconnected. Not only are the various orders of living things made according to their various minds, but even in inanimate nature there is amazing orderliness with infinite variety. Every snowflake that ever fell upon the earth has a similar mathematical design, but no two are ever alike. All the elements in the chemical table are interrelated in weight and atomic structure, the great universe swings in predictable fashion. The astronomers know that a solar eclipse will be visible at a certain time in a certain place: they will travel to that spot, and the eclipse occurs exactly on time.
There are many beginnings described in the Word. This verse refers to the beginning of the material universe. The gospel of John goes back much farther into the eternity when there was not yet a material creation. A music teacher may tell a child to go back to the beginning, and it may be the beginning of a phrase, a measure, a page, a movement, a sonata. God is the God of new beginnings. There is no peace for the mind apart from the knowledge that back of all that is around us…the stars and sun, the earth and all that is in it… our own bodies there is the mind and will of God. When we know that He created all these things, we can know that He has an eternal purpose - even though the universe is marked by the eroding signs of judgment upon sin, we can be sure that our God who began His work will also finish it. “When I begin, I shall also make an end” (I Samuel 3:12).
Every true child of God longs for the deepening Christian life. We have God-given desires for holiness. How important then that we should remember that the Lord Jesus Christ, about to go to the cross, looked to the Father and said: “Make them holy through Thy Word; Thy Word is truth." It is an amazing thing, and we realize it more and more as we come to know God’s Word, that almost all God does in this world today, he does through the instrumentality of His Word. It follows that if we expect to secure blessings from God, we must receive them in the way that He planned to give them to us, and though we may find holiness in many ways in the Bible, we shall not find it apart from the Bible.
