The Name

Genesis 3:20

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

I don’t know why, but when I read this verse, I cried.

Adam received his punishment, knowing he had sinned, and he accepted God’s discipline.  But somehow, I think he caught a glimpse of the love of his Creator.  God, even in the curse of the pain of childbirth and the toil of the land, was offering them the gift of life that goes on and on, from generation to generation…because there would soon be a Savior born to a woman who would eradicate the effects of sin on every generation…

Therefore, Adam named his wife Eve.  The name Eve means “life.”

They were sentenced to death, banished from God’s garden and his holy presence, condemned to work hard and feel pain, and yet Adam gave his wife the name that means life.

Do you think Adam realized and recognized and finally repented at the fact that he had disobeyed the God who gave life?  He knew that he had taken that life, that God breath that made him come alive, and had destroyed it by disobedience?

I do.

I think he did, and he responded by name his wife Eve – the mother of all the living.

God knew there would come a day when men/women would seek him and find him and serve him and love him, because of Jesus.  So he set in motion the birthing of children from generation to generation…