“And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and BROUGHT HER UNTO THE MAN.” Genesis 2:22
God did not create Eve and leave her wandering in the garden, trying to find her way back to Adam. He did not fashion her from the rib, set her on her feet, and then step back to see if she could figure out where she belonged or what she was supposed to do. He did not leave her to navigate the garden alone, searching for her purpose, wondering about her identity, or questioning whether she had value. No. God brought her to him. He presented her. He placed her before Adam with intentionality, with purpose, and with divine timing. The making was complete, and now the presentation could happen.
Eve did not have to introduce herself. She did not have to prove her worth or convince Adam of her value. She did not have to audition for her role or campaign for her position. Instead, God Himself brought her, and in that bringing, there was validation, affirmation, and commissioning.
This is a profound and often overlooked detail in the narrative of creation. God could have left Eve to find Adam on her own. He could have allowed her to wander through the garden until she eventually crossed paths with him. He could have expected her to prove herself, to demonstrate her competence, and to earn her place beside him. But He did not. Conversely, God took the responsibility of the presentation upon Himself. He acted as the Divine Presenter, the One who validates, the One who affirms, and the One who says, “This is who she is. This is why she was made. This is where she belongs. And this is what she is commissioned to do.”
And in that act of divine presentation, we see a principle that governs the entire process of discipleship: God does not just make disciples; He also places them. He does not just shape you; He also sends you. He does not just form you in secret; He also presents you in public. He does not just work on you in the hidden place; He also brings you forth at the appointed time and sets you before the assignment, the people, and the mission for which you were made. And when He does, His presentation carries with it an authority, a validation, and an affirmation that no human endorsement could ever match.
This is the final stage of discipleship: THE SENDING! The PRESENTATION! The COMMISSIONING! When God has finished making you, when the rib has been fully transformed, when the disciple has been fully formed, and when the vessel has been completely shaped according to His design, He brings you back. Not to where you were, but to where He wants you to be. Not as who you were, but as who He has made you. And He presents you to the mission, to the people, and to the purpose for which He formed you.
God does not leave you in isolation forever. He does not keep you hidden indefinitely. He does not abandon you in the place of formation, expecting you to figure out your next steps on your own. Instead, He brings you back, but you return different. You return carrying something you did not have before. You return with the DNA of the One who made you. You return with the authority of the One who sent you. And you return ready to fulfill the purpose for which you were taken in the first place.
The Timing of the Presentation
“… and brought her unto the man.”
Notice the sequence. God did not bring Eve to Adam while she was still being made. He did not present her in the middle of the process, half-formed, incomplete, or still under construction. He rather waited until the making was finished, until the shaping was done, and until when she was fully who He intended her to be. Only then did He bring her forth. Only then did He present her. Only then did the introduction happen.
This is critical for every disciple to understand: God does not present you prematurely. He does not send you out before you are ready. He does not commission you while you are still in the process of being formed. He waits. He is patient. He continues the work until it is complete. And only when the vessel is fully shaped, only when the disciple is fully formed, and only when the making is finished, does He bring you forth and say, “Now you are ready. Now it is time. Now I will present you to the assignment I have prepared for you.”
“And he sent and BROUGHT HIM IN. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And THE LORD SAID, “Arise, anoint him, FOR THIS IS HE.” 1 Samuel 16:12 (English Standard Version)
“So God SENT BACK the SAME MAN his people had previously rejected when they demanded, ‘WHO MADE YOU a ruler and judge over us?’ Through the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush, God sent Moses to be their ruler and savior.” Acts 7: 35 (New Living Translation)
“And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts TILL THE DAY of his SHOWING unto Israel.” Luke 1: 80 (American Standard Version)
When Moses first attempted to deliver Israel, he was not yet made. He saw the suffering of his people, and in his own strength, in his own timing, and in his own way, he tried to step into the role of deliverer. He killed an Egyptian, thinking that would be the beginning of Israel’s liberation. But when he was confronted the next day by a Hebrew, the response was devastating: “Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?” (Exodus 2:14).
That question “Who made you?” was the rejection of a man who had not yet been presented by God. Moses had credentials – he was educated in all the wisdom of Egypt, he was a prince in Pharaoh’s court, he had influence and position. But he was not yet made by God. And so he was rejected. Not because he was unqualified in the eyes of men, but because he was unprepared in the timing of God.
But forty years later, after God had taken Moses into the wilderness of Midian, after He had stripped him of his Egyptian identity, after He had humbled him, shaped him, broken him, and remade him into a man who knew that he could do nothing apart from the presence of God, then – and only then – did God present him. “So God sent back the same man his people had previously rejected… “
David experienced the same divine timing. God Himself presented him. Not Jesse, the elders or the people. God brought him in from the fields at the appointed time and said, “This is the one I have made. This is the one I have prepared. Now is the time for his anointing.” David did not promote himself. He did not campaign for the throne. He did not manipulate his way into position. God presented him when the making was complete.
And then there is John the Baptist. John was not in the public eye from birth. He was not preaching as a child. He was in the deserts – hidden, unknown, and being formed by God in obscurity. And he remained there until the appointed time. Until the day of his showing. Until the moment when God said, “Now you are ready. Now I will present you to Israel as the voice crying in the wilderness, preparing the way for the Messiah.”
This is the pattern. God makes you in private before He presents you in public. He forms you in the hidden place before He brings you into the open. He completes the work before He displays it. And if you try to present yourself prematurely, if you try to step into the assignment before the making is finished, you will be rejected – not because the assignment is not yours, but because the timing is not right.
Also, if God presents you too early, if He sends you before the making is complete, you will not be able to carry the weight of the assignment. You will crack under the pressure. You will crumble in the testing, and you will be exposed as unfinished, unprepared, and inadequate for the task.
But if you will wait, if you will submit to the process, and if you will allow God to complete the work He has begun, then when He finally presents you, when He finally brings you forth, you will be ready. Fully ready. Not perfectly flawless, but adequately prepared. Not without weaknesses, but equipped with the character, the maturity, the depth, and the anointing necessary to fulfill what He has called you to do.
Written by: Sunday Adeoye