Eve, if only you knewโ€ฆ

Written By TaraLeigh Inman

ใ€ฐ๏ธ๐‘‚โ„Ž ๐ธ๐‘ฃ๐‘’, ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘–๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค. ๐ˆ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐โ€™๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก, ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘›?โฃ

โฃใ€ฐ๏ธIf you could have seen a scared teen girl trudging to Bethlehem to birth in an animal dwelling, ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’? โฃ

โฃYou felt your boys end each other, ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘›. Youโ€™d likely never want another sister to live that loss. If you ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ understood the truth of sin, ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž? ๐„๐ฏ๐ž, ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ง๐ž๐ฐ. โฃ

โฃEve was born in Genesis, the book of the beginnings of life and death. What a legacy Eve participated in. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐›๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐„๐ฏ๐ž-๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ก ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก. And weโ€™ve borderline demonized her as if weโ€™re perfect ourselves because of it~women can be catty like that.โฃ

โฃใ€ฐ๏ธWhile we yearn for coming communion, ๐ฌ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฅ๐ญ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ก๐ข๐ญ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฅ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐ž๐ ๐›๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ.โฃ

โฃ ใ€ฐ๏ธShe went from pain free, care free days to the writhing groans of childbirth and the howl of her sons murdering one another. โฃ

โฃใ€ฐ๏ธShe ended up with no besties around, no one to chat with over coffee or tea, no other friends to talk out her woes. She went from walking the garden with God to trying to pull her own weeds alone.โฃ

โฃใ€ฐ๏ธWe donโ€™t hear much more about Eve as Genesis rolls along, but ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ต๐‘–๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค far & wide ๐บ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘”๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘š ๐ป๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘ , ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐ป๐‘’ ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘‘. โฃ

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Generations later, when Jesus was ready to spread the news of His resurrection? He called upon Godโ€™s girls.โฃ

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๐๐จ ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎโ€™๐ฏ๐ž ๐๐จ๐ง๐ž, ๐ง๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐‡๐ข๐ฆ.

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