The first recorded scripture in the Bible which deals with relationships is Gen.2:18, “Its not good that man should be alone.” We have used that as a matrimonial prescription but its application is much broader. If it only applied to matrimony it would eliminate all those who are single.

 Even thought Adam is named first in Gen.1, he is the last creature to receive an identity in Gen.2. After he identifies everything God created, he identifies the woman and then himself. Its only after he is introduced to Eve that he take on his own identity. His identification is connected to his relationship with her.

In Gen. chapters 12 & 20, Sarah is identified as Abrahams “sister and wife.” In Gen.26, Rebekah is identified as Isaac’s “sister and wife.” In SOS 4:9,10,12; 5:1, The bride is identified as “my sister, my spouse.” A sister is someone you communicate with. A wife is someone you’re intimate with.

The most powerful tool ever given to man is speech. Communication not only creates relationships but it sustains them, and a wife requires both conversation as well as intimacy. “There are three ways to get a message out: 1] television 2] telephone 3] tell-a-woman.”