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She was perfect. She had the perfect man. The perfect place to live. Perfect relationships. Hers was a life surrounded by beauty and in constant fellowship with her creator, the One True God.
When she first opened her eyes and came into being, the man she was created to love and the God who planned it all welcomed her with love and acceptance. The man claimed her as bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh, and gave her the beautiful name “woman.” They lived in glorious harmony with not a trace of shame.
She was the first fairytale. The first love story, the first dream come true, the first soul-mate for the perfect man.
And she became the first to be betrayed, deceived, and torn out of her naiveté.
Like every fairytale, she was told lies, and she believed them. She ate the fruit, and shared it with her husband. Her world shattered. Her God was seeking her husband out, asking the questions she wished would go away. And then the worst moment of all—her perfect man, who named her and was proud of her and loved her as his own body, shoved her in front of himself before the Almighty God’s wrath. Pouring the blame on her, almost complaining that God had given her to him. “The woman YOU gave to me made me eat it!”
And she stood there with heart tearing apart piece by piece—if only she had not listened to the serpent. If only she had been wiser! If only Adam had been with her when the serpent talked to her. If only he had protected her instead of blaming her. If only….
She was the first to fall from an idyllic world into the harsh reality of sin. Adam no longer called her woman—he renamed her “Eve”, the mother of all living things. She was the mother of our sin-streaked human race.
Do we wonder why we search for our beautiful fairy tale—the ever-elusive, alluring happily-ever-after—only to fall time and time again into disappointment and hurt? Our mother is Eve. In our deepest being, we long for the Garden…our own perfect relationship with God and others. Eve understood what it is like to be disappointed by those we love. She felt the sting of betrayal and confusion. She gave the one defense that we all love to give—“I was beguiled”—we didn’t know, we were tricked. Yet she will bear the mark forever of the greatest fall of mankind.
But out of disaster came beauty. Maybe her mistakes were in God’s plan after all. For what kind of love is it, if you do not choose it, if you do not seek after it with all of your heart? She was unknowledgeable in the garden. Was the tree of knowledge put there for a reason? She was perfect, yes—but is it possible her love was not deep the way God longs for us to deeply love Him? Was her love so small that she thought nothing of disappointing her God for a piece of fruit?
It was the taking away that made her love her God more. It was far bigger than her and Adam's marriage problems and new-found shame. It was about having to die in order to find true life and love. By one man sin entered the world—and so by one perfect man’s sacrifice, redemption is found. Real love comes when Eve’s curse is reversed by seeking out the One True Love.
One woman’s sin was simply the means for the greatest love story in the history of the world to come to pass.
By Eve we experience the fall, the death, the horrors of anything other than God and His grace—by His Only Son, we experience the resurrection, the life, the awe of each new day spent with our Creator.
She was the first tragedy. She was the mother of all things. She was the reason we can have a deeper relationship with our Creator God.
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Great, wonderful perspective that is often times not seen. Loved your post, thank you for sharing it with others it was a tremendous encouragement to me
Great, wonderful perspective that is often times not seen. Loved your post, thank you for sharing it with others it was a tremendous encouragement to me
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