… and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground-- (Gen 2:5-6).

The creation story in Gen 2 begins with the ground that was watered by streams coming up from the earth. As we have seen, this is one kind of metaphoric image that is frequently used to express the creation work of God. The noteworthy part of this story is the forming of the first man Adam from the dust of the earth, for whom a woman was made out of his rib while he was in a deep sleep. Meditate upon it and try to see how it comes to be connected to what happened to humanity through Christ—Christ being the husband, and humanity the wife. Note that a helper was first sought by Adam:

So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found (v. 20).

God’s creation is not merely physical, but it rather originates in a spiritual realm. God saw that Adam was lonely, and wanted to give him a suitable helper. That was where this creation began.

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man (vv. 21-22).

Since this was before death came into the world, God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep—not death. In the case of Christ, since he came to the world into which death had already come, he died, and out of him, the church—his body—was created.

Now, look at the story of the Samaritan woman in John 4, and compare it with the creation story of Gen 2. Both stories are told in the similar setting—a dry land out of which water comes up. Surprisingly, it was Jesus himself who first asked for a drink. Water in the Bible is a symbol of love (Prov 5:15-20), and all humans are thirsty for true love. Jesus said:

Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life (John 4:13-14).

Indeed, this woman met her true husband—her spiritual husband—that day, and her search was over. She became a new creation in Christ just as Eve was created from Adam. This woman symbolically represents the church, which is metaphorically expressed as Jesus’ bride, or wife in the New Testament. Jesus went on saying:

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth (vv. 23-24).

Worship is a form of the love and fellowship we have for God. Note that God himself seeks such worshippers, and this woman was called to be one of them.

The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."

Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he (vv. 25-26)."

Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people (v. 28), …

According to the New Testament, love fulfills all the requirements of the Old Testament.

The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself (Gal 5:14)."

God has already poured his love into our hearts through Christ. It is the spring of water welling up to eternal life. There, you have the source of all of God’s creation.