Women in the Bible: Eve – A Woman that Shares
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. – Genesis 3:6
Our lesson from Eve today will focus on her sharing quality. She was a giving woman who did not hoard from her husband. How was that good? Please read along.
It takes love to give (John 3:16) and it takes a good heart to share what you could have kept for yourself alone. Eve demonstrated her love for her husband, Adam, by sharing the fruit she ate with him rather than kept it to herself alone.
Hindsight has helped us to know that she really did not do well by eating the fruit in the first place. However, without the benefit of knowing the consequences of her action, one can see the good heart of Eve as she demonstrated her affection for her husband by giving him the fruit to eat.
How is this so? The Bible says she ‘saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise’. These are all positive features that she decided to share with her husband instead of holding back. No matter what we think of her, she meant well by sharing what she thought was good stuff with her husband.
If the whole fruit-eating scenario had turned out well and hadn’t boomeranged on she and her husband’s faces, she would have been commended for her good nature. But because it did not end well, it is easy to castigate and blame her. However. the fact remains that she meant well for her husband by sharing the good, pleasant and desirable fruit with him, rather than kept it for herself alone and be helping herself to it secretly.
Another point is that, knowing that the said fruit would result in enlightenment, as it would make her wise and help her know what was good and what was evil, she wanted this for her husband as well, and that was why she shared it with him, so that they would both be wise and enlightened together. She could have opted to be the enlightened one in the family alone while the husband languished in ignorance. But she did not choose such privilege for herself alone. She wanted it for herself, and she desired it for her husband as well.
For a heart like that, you cannot fault much.
Selah!
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