Eve - The Unpolluted Mind

Of all the women in the Bible I think that Eve is my favorite. Not alot if written about her in scripture but what few words are written say alot.

Can you imagine being Eve?

The first woman on the planet! Not only are you the first woman on the planet but you are perfect in every way. You have no equal. You have no one to compare yourself to. You just are - perfect.

Now, let's take that a step further: Eve was the first creation that the Lord God formed out of living flesh. He formed Adam from the dust of the earth and our dear Eve out of Adam's rib. God put Adam into a supernatural anesthesia and removed that rib and closed up the wound. Then the Creator of Everything takes said rib and begins to knit and form tissue around it. He forms Adam's helpmate. Adam's lost half. That part of Adam that was missing.

As Eve you are in a paradise that we as modern women cannot comprehend really. She worked with her hands in the garden and with the animals. Oh yes! She did it all naked as well! Can you imagine doing anything like that naked? I have a hard time taking a shower naked let alone picking some fruit outside in broad dayling no less!

The most fascinating aspect of Eve for me tonight is the fact that her mind was pure. Her thoughts were pure. There was no guile in her, no deceit, no treachery, no jealousy, not cattiness, no doubt, no depression. Her mind was 100% firing on all cylinders just as the Lord intended it to work. She must have gazed upon her loving husband and just simply loved him. Stood side by side with him as they planted rows of vegetables and was simply . . . content to be there with him doing Gods' work.

Eve knew her place and that place was with her husband right at his side; after all that is where she came from wasn't it? She would have never looked at him (before the fall I suppose but I don't think she did after the fall either) and wondered what it would have been like if God created a different Adam. She looked at him and just knew it was right.

Eve would have been ok with herself. She wouldn't have looked down at her body and rolled her eyes. She would have been ok with the swell of her hips or the slightly rounded belly. She wouldn't have cared if her breast were a bit lopsided or sagged a bit! Do you think that Eve would have thought her butt was too big as she bathed in a stream, hoping that Adam didn't look at it in an unflattering light? Eve loved herself and her body because that was the way God designed her.

And finally, most importantly, Eve loved her God. She walked and talked intimately with Him in the cool of the evening. She saw and trusted the work of His hands. I wonder how many times she lay among the cool grass and just talked to Him, loved Him above all else? Her mind focused and devoted to the One true God.

Yep, I love Eve. And I have to say that she is the one (besides my Jesus) that I hope to spend alot of time with in heaven and on the new earth.

-Mar