It is very significant to observe what Adam did after Eve presented him with her, and now his choice. She explained that she had partaken of the fruit, and that she would thereby be cast out of the garden and that he consequently would be alone again. Adam did not hesitate. He immediately grasped the situation they were now in, and he, without hesitation, made his choice. He chose to be with Eve. Women, we should learn something about men from this choice. We should recognize that the men who love us will sacrifice themselves for us. That is how they manifest their love. It is in their nature. They will risk their own lives to protect and defend you. Adam knew that the consequence of his partaking of the fruit would be death and the requirement to leave behind everything he then had. He was willing to make that sacrifice to be with and protect Eve. This is a powerful thing to know about men. I see this in my own life and with my own husband. Women, do we recognize how much we are loved? Do we honor and appreciate the men who love us for the sacrifices that they make in our behalf. I hope so. I hope that we honor their sacrifices and reverence the amazing love that they have for us. Alas, I fear that we often do not even see it, or that we come to expect it and often take it for granted. Women, honor and cherish your beloved husband for the choice that he made to give everything he is, to have you. That is his sacrifice, his driving force in your relationship.
Note what Adam said after Eve was created:
Genesis 2:23-24 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.
We also learn some things from Eve's choices. She forced Adam's hand. She, I believe, relied on Adam's responding as he did. She wanted to move on, but she didn't want to do it alone. I think she was willing to make these choices based on her desire to have a family. Women, our great innate urges pull us toward having children. Men are given the desire to possess, love, and protect their families. Women are given the desire to produce, nurture, and love children, and the capacity to support, love, and sustain men. These are God given desires and traits. They bring us together and make of us families. Women innately know and recognize men who will love them and sacrifice for them. They feel drawn to men who will cherish and protect them and who will extend this same protection to their children. These are powerful forces, and we see them at play in the story of Adam and Eve. God used these forces to implement his plan.
2 Nephi 2:22-25 And now, behold, if Adam had not transgressed he would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the same state in which they were after they were created; and they must have remained forever, and had no end. And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin. But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things. Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.
Moses 5 10-12. . .Blessed be the name of God, for, because of my transgression, my eyes are opened, and in this life I shall have joy, and again in the flesh I shall see God. And Eve, his wife, heard all these things and was glad, saying: Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient.
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