EVE (1)

EVE: “to breathe” or “to live”

Week 1: The Garden

The Setting: Genesis 1:26-31; 2:21-25

Think back on your most indescribable, speechless, flooded by His presence moment with God.

Do you have it?

Now multiply that by the moment you were born, times that by a trillion, and you still won’t come close to the moment life was breathed into Eve and her waking up for the first time next to God himself.

Imagine: You just woke up from the best sleep you’ve ever had, the sun is beaming down on you, the temperature outside is perfect with just a slight breeze, and an overwhelming amount of joy is surrounding your every movement. You are refreshed and by your Maker alone, you know who you are, where you are, and why you are here. Your father takes your hand (as if down the aisle), leads you to the man from which you were created from & for, and he starts to speak to you (sounds like vows to me). God ends this very first picture of “man & wife” with such a great magnitude of love, your innocence for one another is unimaginable; so much so, you don’t even realize how bare you really are. It is truly Heaven on Earth.

Are you daydreaming about heaven yet like me now? Now without jumping ahead to the rest of Eve’s life, stay here in man’s purest form. I find it interesting that even before Eve was created, females existed (Gen 1: 27). God knew even before he created Adam that He was going to create a woman for Adam out of him. It wasn’t until the next day that Adam realized he didn’t have someone like all of the living creatures he was naming did. He was missing something in his life (Gen 2:20b). I can see him now, “God, why does everything that I am naming have someone and I don’t?” God just smiles, has Adam lay down, the head anesthesiologist knocks him out, and He begins the first surgery.

Thoughts for the week:

1.    Can you imagine yourself as Eve, being that close to God, what do you think her first reactions were after breathing her first breath in?

2.    How different would your life be if you let go and trusted God with every part of your life? So much so, that you wouldn’t be worrying about what the day will bring? Or who or when your future spouse will come? Or if you’re in the right job right now? Or the right city?

3.    Do you think Adam thought he was missing out on something by not having a “helper” because he was just jealous of the creatures around him or think he knew he was supposed to have Eve from the beginning?

Challenge:

As you wake up each morning, take time to dwell in His presence so that you can have a refreshing of God’s breathe through you so the vastness of His love intoxicates you throughout each cell of your body; where only joy then can spill out into your day creating Heaven on Earth.