So do the right thing, and keep doing it. Even if it doesn't help you move ahead in the short-term, it will protect and serve you well over the long-term. Or as the Psalmist put it, 'He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.' (Psalm 23:3)
Blog about the book: Lost Women of the Bible
by Carolyn Custis James
Ok friends ...this is me attempting to do the impossible. This is the first book I have read from this author and I am an instant fan! She has shown her readers a fresh new insight to these women and it is amazing indeed that I have not thought about Eve, Mrs Noah, Sarah...etc.. in the way she sees them, wrote about them, in this light apart from what the Bible mentions. The book might be reading more into what the Bible says about them but I guarantee there is a lesson or two in each chapter in this book.
This is the first of a series of blogs about the book "Lost Women in the Bible" and where else to start than Eve. Once Eve got lost, all women through the centuries are affected. And I mean, it is the entire created womanhood that got lost. !
The author wanted us to see how Eve can be recovered! And found she was, when God in His Lovingkindness pronounced a promise to her, when God decided that His daughter-ezers in the centuries that followed will be rescued by Him, when God, in His unfathomable Love, stepped into the story....
Now step back a bit...focusing on Eve, put yourself in her shoes, how do you like to spend the rest of your life being blamed for something you initiated? Although it was for something you did. Eve spent the rest of her life comparing the inexplicable beauty of Eden to the ugly, dirty, miserable, corrupted world she ended up in. The pain of childbirth was not the only result of the curse. It was a whole lot more than that. It was the pain of looking at your husband and knowing he blames you for everything, for all the trials, diseases and hardships that followed the curse - everyday, every single day; perhaps until he died. It might even be the pain of knowing he has not forgiven you. It was the pain of experiencing the difficulty of not being able to harvest fruits and crop, as even the very ground she stood on was cursed. It was the pain of knowing your son harbored so much anger on another son, that Cain cold-bloodedly murdered his own brother, Abel.
How can you live with all that pain.?
In Genesis 2: 18 is where God assigned the "ezer" status to Eve. "It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper (ezer) suitable for him" and we as her daughters are all ezers. The author states in the book " The doctor who announces the birth of a girl might just as well exclaim -it's an ezer! - for we are ezers from birth. God calls the ezer to join the man in every sphere of life." I definitely like that.
Even when God was pronouncing the curse that had befallen man, God promised a Savior. From out of the seed of Eve, God promised the coming of the Messiah Jesus who is the Hope of Humanity. God had a plan, He did not end it all, after the curse. He did not turn his back on us, He found us - you and me.
The legacy of Eve is not the curse but the promise of hope in the Savior.
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