THE GIRL IN THE YELLOW COAT

[cimi]

February 9
Monday


WHO'S THE
BOSS?

READ:
Romans 6:1-14
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A man shall leave his
father and mother and
be joined to his wife,
and they shall become
one flesh. __Gen 2:24
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It was her yellow raincoat that caught my attention, and quickly I became increasingly interested in this cut freshman with long, brown hair. Soon I worked up my courage, interrupted Sue as she walked along reading a letter from a guy back home, and awkwardly asked her for a date. To my surprise, she said yes.

More than 4 decades later, Sue and I look back and laugh at our first uncomfortable meeting on that college campus__and marvel how God put a shy guy from Ohio together with a shy girl from Michigan. Through the years, we have faced innumerable crises together as we raised our family. We've negotiated parenting four kids, and we've struggled mightily with losing one of them. Problems big and small have tested our faith, yet we've stuck together. It took commitment from both of us and the grace of God. Today we rejoice in God's design, spelled out in Genesis 2:24__to leave our parents, to be unified as man and wife, and to become united as one flesh. We cherish this amazing plan that has given us such a wonderful life together.

God's design for marriage is beautiful. So we pray for married couples to sense how awesome it is to enjoy life together under the blessing of God's love in guidance. __Dave Branon

````````````````````Lord, the first thing You organized during society's`````````````````````
```````````````````earliest days was marriage. Thank You for how you````````````````````
```````````````````designed this amazing institution. Show me how to````````````````````
``````````````````help strengthen others in their marriage relationship.```````````````````
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Marriage thrives in a climate of love, honor,
and respect.

********************************Today's bible Reading __ genesis 2:18-25*****************************
18 And the LORD God said,
"It is not good that man
should be alone; I will
make him a helper
comparable to him."

19 Out of the ground the
LORD God formed every
beast of the field and every
bird of the air, and brought
them to Adam to see what
he would call them. And
whatever Adam called each
living creature, that was its
name. 20 So Adam gave
names to all cattle, to the
birds of the air, and to every
beast of the field.

But for Adam there was
not found a helper
comparable to him. 21 And
the LORD God caused a
deep sleep to fall on Adam,
and he slept; and He took
some of his ribs, and closed
up the flesh in its place.

22 Then the rib which the
LORD God had taken from
man He made into a
woman, and He brought her
to the man.

23 And Adam said:
"This is now bone of my
bones and flesh of my
flesh; she shall be called
Woman, because she was
taken out of Man."

24 Therefore a man shall
leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and they shall become one
flesh.

25 And they were both
naked, the man and his
wife, and were not
ashamed.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
In Genesis 1-2 we see two tellings of the same story. Genesis 1
gives a sweeping overview of the creation of the universe,
including the creation of the first human beings (Gen. 1:26-28).
Genesis 2, however, describes more specifically the distinctive
relationship the man and woman have with their Creator and their
roles in His world.