We’ve been learning very important life lessons from the stories of the popular and unpopular brave women in the Bible. You can watch the series here or follow along on this blog.

Even if you’re not interested in the Bible, the idea of the first female to ever exist on this planet should interest you. She is the only woman who was not born a baby. She was born fully developed as a woman and married to Adam by God himself, and she never had to worry about her appearance or what other people thought of her. She was created perfect and lived in a perfect world. She was pulled from a man’s ribs, and when she came out, Adam courted and married her right away because he had a profound admiration for her. He had his eyes focused only on her.

In trending vernacular, we could say Eve was a 10, and her life was also a 10. Perfect body. Perfect man. Perfect Home. Perfect GOD. She had the full trust of her man. He could eat from her hands without asking what it was. Adam had undeniable love and trust for Eve, so much so that even after the fall, he named her after her purpose. He could still see her potential of her. He called her “Mother of all Living.” “Life Giver”. She had just introduced death to the family, yet her man looked at her and called her a “Life Giver.” Love conquers all, and that from the beginning of time.

We could blame Eve for the sins of humanity, but doing so would place us right where the devil wants us – ignoring him as the mastermind of the twisty plot and killing each other instead. Eve was seduced by both physical and emotional “IFs.”

What IF I cut my body to be more beautiful?

What IF I betrayed a few people to gain more influence and power? That’s not so bad. Right?

What IF this coach is right about me not having enough, and her “10 secrets to success course” for $999 is what I need to start making money?

What IF God never really talked to me about owning those lands and that I was just making it up, I may as well move out of state because this is taking too long?

You get the point, right? We have all been exactly where Eve was. Granted, she had no previous experience with sins, but all the more reason for you to give yourself grace when you make a mistake. You made a mistake. You Failed. You pick up a few fig leaves, cover yourself and Move On with life.

Life Goes On. You alone determine how YOUR story ends.

5 Key Lessons to Retain from Eve’s Story

#1 Never negotiate your worth with someone who has already made up his mind about you.

The enemy embodied the serpent and came to the garden of Eden with a plan. Though Eve was not aware of the serpent’s plan, she was aware of God’s plan for her. Eternal Life in paradise. When God gives you a vision or a word for your life. Trust him and No One Else (contradicting that vision).

#2 “Stand Firm in Your Truth”

You exist because the world needed a little piece of what your brain has to offer. Offer the universe just that and nothing else. Stand in your light. Shine out of pure intentions not out of competition. Allow others to be inspired by your truth. Remain authentic to your purpose and serve humanity with the best part of yourself. Eve was created with a purpose, and not even her mistake could take away from the purpose of God in her life. Her descendant gave birth to Jesus Christ, the savior of humanity. The devil had nothing on her. It’s the same for you.

#3 Eve was positioned so Adam could see her, but Adam initiated courtship.

While feminism was born out of pure intentions, it’s a no-brainer that the fight for equality, though this is still a necessary fight, has watered down the very foundation of feminity. There are more and more women getting on their knees to propose marriage to men. There are more and more women waving their flags that they don’t need a man because they can pay their bills, as if the only reason God made Eve for Adam was that he could pay her bills.

We are moving away from the fundamental truth of marriage, and we are adapting to culture’s definition, whatever the zeitgeist of our era teaches. We may disagree on a lot, and though it is not a sin for women to break the ice or court a man, the ideal plan of God was that she would be positioned all confident and amazing on one side, and the man would just be beside himself in admiration and eventually go and get her for himself.

#4 Domination and controls are the results of sins.

“Your desire will be to your husband, and he will rule over you.” In other words, you will forever be fighting your husband for control. It is so engrained in our biology that Paul had to preach to oblige women to respect and submit to their husbands. You only preach about a thing if you’ve been made aware that it is an issue in the community. 🙂

We don’t have to go far to highlight the history of female rebellion, we’ll just stay in the Bible. Sarah told her husband to go sleep with her servant to have the baby that God promised because God was taking too long. Delilah had the strongest man in history pouring his secret to her, even though God asked Samson and his parents to be discreet about his power. Jezabel had the one of the most powerful prophets in the Bible run for his life. There can be no denial about the power of a woman.

The woman has been in a continuous battle to assert and establish her power on earth because somewhere after Eve ate the fruit, trust was broken, and the love that Adam had was tainted by the experience of eating that forbidden fruit without asking not even ONE question.

Our curse is male domination. And the fight is a fight for “Pure Love.

Yes, men were created to rule, but they were never created to rule over women or her body!

It was meant to be a partnership, not a dictatorship. That is why when love is lacking, there will always be a fight for power and control.

#5. Eve fed Adam the lie she believed about her life.

In my last video, I explained how woman is the protector of bodies because she was taken from the ribs, whose main functions in the body are to support vitality, protect against danger and facilitate respiration. I deducted that God, being the intentional God he is, took Eve from the rib because of these functionalities of the ribs.

Point in fact, women are the core of every environment they step into. They bring life. They revive. They support. They love. They care. Yes, men do all of these too, but their care and love can never compare to that of women. Psychology studies highlight the need for both moms and dads to foster the well-being of a child because the love that each parent gives cannot replace the other. Father teaches their children to navigate the world and develop discipline and respect, and moms teach their children how to be themselves and accept who they are in spite of their environment. That’s the generality from trends of studies, but not strickly the norms.

Equal but Different.

Equal, but Both are Necessary for survival.

The lack of love and mistrust has thrown humanity on a constant strive for balance. We spend so much time fighting for women’s rights that we start to slowly kill the rights of men in our society; And men spend so much time trying to dominate women that they are now losing control of their role and purpose in society because women realize they can lead better. Sad, but it was never meant to be that way.

We are off balance!

But, if we go back to the foundation of the world and see how Adam continued to love and make love to Eve, in spite of her mistake. If we can go back before that and see God’s intentions in creating that partnership in Eden, we will see that we NEED each other to survive.

Fast forward to ten thousand years of women not needing men because they have their jobs, and men shunning women because they’re “the weaker gender”, humanity could go extinct, and dogs and cats and other mammals will be ruling this planet instead of us, brilliant-minded, God-like humans.

Have you ever thought of the extreme side of culture?