Messages That Matter By Dr. Andrew Corbett

God’s final and ultimate act of creation was to create “’Ishah” (the Hebrew word for ‘woman’). She could reflect GOD in ways that A’dam could not. She was given the gift reproducing imago Dei life! Angels could not do this. No animal could do this. She could exhibit a quality that only GOD Himself had. Little wonder then that at the moment she was created envy and pride arose in the heart of one of the high heavenly beings. When GOD created the “Ishah” for A’dam, the man broke out into poetry. These are the first recorded words of Adam. Perhaps as he walked and talked the Lord each day in the cool of the day, he learned from his Maker to speak poetically. Today, it is no accident that Christian worship still echoes that original impulse to worship GOD poetically. GOD created the ‘Ishah as an “ezer“ (an ally, in the military sense) and together the man and the woman would be a unit of covenant intimacy for worshiping GOD in their ordinary and mundane activities - yet now, nothing would be truly mundane, be