Waiting for [St]eve

Last weekend I attended a conference and had an opportunity to talk with another single women like myself. She is a few years older than me so it was good to share about our struggles and triumphs that have come by being single in our twenties. This week as I reflected on our conversation I was thinking about "waiting". I am waiting on the Lord to provide the husband that He has created for me. I was consider the following story:

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it....Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him." Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them...But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him....And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man He made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh..."

God created Adam and gave him a calling to work and live in Eden. Yet, God said it was NOT good for Adam to be alone. So then God sends all the creatures to Adam for him to name. Can you imagine..here is Adam with the God-given desire to be with someone and ever creature God brings to him just doesn't fit. He had to wait, I imagine for a long time, while every animal passed by him. I can imagine the disappointment that Adam must have felt when he named the last creature. But God had something special for Adam. He created woman...tailored especially for Adam, to fit him perfectly so much so that the two could become one. When God gave Adam this gift, he was amazed. "This at last," he said, as he laid eyes on her for the first time.

Wow, what a great thing to look forward (as a person not made to be alone)! After all the waiting and watching all those who have passed by, at last God will send that one person who has been created especially for me (and I for him). And I am ok with waiting because how would Adam have known how special Eve was if he didn't know how unfitting the other creatures were. Waiting will help me appreciate my gift even more than if God were to give it to me now. Even more, as I wait upon the Lord, He is drawing me closer to Himself and He means more to me than any man could. I love God and I am thankful that He knows what is GOOD for me. So I wait for my "[St]eve" with hope and great expectation.