To be a helper

„Did helping become unattractive“ nowadays? Yesterday in one of my classes we talked about the topic „The creation of the woman “. In Genesis 2:18 it is written: Then the Lord God said: It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make a helper, who is just right for him. First we have discussed the today's linguistic usage of the word „to be a helper or assistance.  My students explained to me that the word „help or helper“ is not any longer  attractive. They meant, the thought „of helping each other “ is loosing his value. Is that correct? On the first pages of the Bible we experience that God original intentions with humans were „to help one another (mutual helping).  The term „assistance“ refers to the previous sentence: it is not good that humans are alone. In this sense a helper is not someone, whose assistance is to ask for, because it is comfortable or pleasently only.  But a helper (here the woman) is the assistance, that helps the other one to find the true purpose in fulfillment of the life. It lies in the mutual with one another and in helping each other. We humans were created to the fellowship with each other and with God. By the way the term  „assistance or helper“ has in the Bible always a very positive value: God presents himself for the Israelits as „their helper/aide “(hebr.word  „ezer“ is the same , Psalm 121). In this context the term “assistance or helper“ becomes today for us a completely new attractiveness. Where can you be today in your family, your neighbourhood or your church a suitable (appropriate) helper?