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The
desire of Woman
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the two who lived in that garden their world had fallen apart. Guilt,
shame, fear previously unknown was taking its toll as they waited for
their daily rendezvous. They were looking for a reasonable hiding place
to shelter from the night, having earlier managed fig leaves to cover
their modesty.
They knew they could not hide long enough as the setting sun handed over rule to the moon and stars for the night and their daily quiet time with their Creator was now come. In Gen 3:9 we read God calling, "Adam, where art thou?" Not a call of ignorance but a reminder for Adam, regarding his fallen state. We see Adam spill effortlessly his rehearsed lines trying to absolve himself, much like some present time husbands. He would realize very soon that God's command had been broken and no excuses or alternatives were possible. God's judgement is quick and concise, serpent the perpetrator is first cursed, the ground is cursed too. I want us to think for a moment what might have gone through Adam and Eve's mind during that courtroom trial. Adam knew that God had created him on the sixth day along with the Animals, and a reenacting of that day was not an impossibility. As he watches the serpent crawl away and the ground transform itself with thorns and thistles, he realizes he is next in line for God's judgement. Adam and Eve stand with their heads bowed waiting for the wrath and curse of God to fall on them. As God pronounces the judgement, it is not a curse we hear but a promise, a promise of the seed of the woman. God does not curse mankind but reveals that a provision had been made since the foundations of the world were laid for such an eventuality. The world knows the seed belongs to the man, yet God asks Adam and Eve to look beyond, to see a Redeemer, born of a virgin, who would restore this broken relationship between God and man. The Hebrew word seed can also be translated as 'desire', the desire of woman. Ask any Jewish woman who await their Messiah, their desire is that the Messiah be born through them. Mary in her exultation in Luke 1:48 says, "…from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed." The promise that the 'desire of woman' will crush the head of the serpent was the basis of the sacrifice that Adam and Eve offer to God that day, the skin of which God uses to clothe them. Thereafter, every time Adam and Eve offered a sacrifice to God, emulated by Abel and the Old Testament Saints, they were declaring that the Holy God who could never tolerate sin was also a loving God who had already planned to redeem them through Jesus Christ His Son. |
