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The Best Perspective From Which to View Life
Consider the first woman, the bride of Adam…an artist always makes his masterpiece last…she was the pinnacle of His entire creation…She had no flaw. Words fail to describe how beautiful Eve must have been. She was breathtaking, pure beyond pure, more beautiful than beauty itself…Her DNA was identical to that of Adam’s. She was by him, to him, and for him…she possessed the same life as Adam…Adam was the source of Eve’s life. Adam was the basis for her existence. Eve could only exist because a part of Adam was in her. Without Adam, she had no existence…When she came out of his side, Adam was increased…The woman was the glorious expression of the man. When you saw her, you saw him…I have not been telling you the story of Adam and Eve. I’ve been telling you a story far greater…
-Frank Viola (@frankviola), From Eternity to Here
Adam and Eve’s creation is first and foremost a physical picture of the spiritual reality of what life is all about. It’s the first picture of a story that is woven throughout all of the pages of the Bible, the one between the Husband and Wife that will eventually be one for all of eternity; the Lord and His Bride.
God’s mission for Himself was to create a Woman upon which He could release His passion. He shared that passion and His experience of it by creating us wired in the same way. Adam and Eve shared the characteristics of the eternal Husband and Wife. Seeing the perfection of their relationship before the Fall shows you how much a part of one another they were; and what life is all about. The man feels what the Father feels. The woman receives and responds like the bride of Christ does.
Filtering all of life through the lens of the relationship between God and His Bride and realizing that it is the reason and culmination of our existence brings a true, fresh and exciting perspective to life. The one that is God’s.
Your turn…what do you have to add? Questions? Learn anything new?
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About the author
Michael Fleming lives near Canton, Ohio with his wife Kristin. Michael is involved as a teacher with the Soul Care Center, a non-profit school in Canton that provides Christian counseling, teaching and coaching to the Stark County area. He also writes and records music for his pop alternative music project (also called 2nd man united) that can be heard in the sidebar of the site.
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