The Crowning Touch

The Crowning Touch

Eve

Read: Genesis 2:15-25

The week between Christmas and New Year’s Day had passed too quickly. We had enjoyed a wonderful time of visiting our families, filled with gift giving, good food, movies, laughter, and games. Still, there was something missing. Everyone cheered as my nephew positioned the last piece of the new six-hundred-piece jigsaw puzzle we had worked on so hard all week. We all admired the beautiful picture of a spring garden, copied from a painting by Monet, until someone noticed the tiny empty space near the center.

When God created the first man and placed him in the Garden to live, there was something missing there, too. Even after God had spent six days fashioning a world full of beautiful plants and a dizzying array of animals, his creation was not complete until he made the first woman. Eve was the crowning touch to God’s perfect creation. Designed and shaped by God’s hand, her femininity perfectly complemented everything else he had made. Adam took one look at Eve and exclaimed, “At last!” God surveyed his finished work and could now say that it was “very good” (Genesis 1:31).

God designed women to bring a special kind of beauty to the world. We are created in God’s image, and we testify to his glory in a unique way as we embrace feminine traits of nurturing, sensitivity, compassion, and creativity. We are also fashioned to have a close relationship with our Creator. Until we know him personally, we are missing the vital piece that completes us, no matter how full our lives may seem. Even if we look as beautiful as a Monet painting, without a relationship with our Creator we have an empty space near the center of our being, right where our heart is.

You will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

Ephesians 3:19