Eve: Mother of All Living

If you want to think about the entire breadth of thinking on motherhood, you start with the beginning, understanding Eve as the first mother. It is true. She was. Her name itself means “mother of all living.” Significant in that name is the term, “living.” Eve wasn’t dead because of sin. She lived because God saved her. He saved her from sin and its penalty, especially spiritual death. However, physical death followed. Her and Adam still breathed on planet earth, which God created.

God made unconditional promises to Adam and Eve, then kept them. He made them for a purpose and then continued fulfilling His purpose. Because Eve still lived, so did her progeny, the children she bore. Later in 1 Timothy 2:15 Paul writes that Eve was saved through childbearing. All life would come through the seed of the woman. Even started a line of descendants culminating in Jesus Christ Himself, whom would bring eternal life to the world. Eve knew she received this gift from God, even as in Genesis 4:1, upon the birth of her first child she says that she had gotten a man from the Lord. That first child could have fulfilled God’s promise. It didn’t, but it revealed her faith in God’s plan of salvation. She believed and anticipated it. This gave her a confidence in God, living by faith off the promises of God.

Later in Psalm 127:3, probably lining up with all this Old Testament truth, David writes that children are not merely a product of human procreation, but a gift and blessing from God, a valuable inheritance entrusted to parents (including the mother). The phrase implies that children are a significant aspect of God's plan. Saying, “Happy Mother’s Day!” for believers, this aligns with the teaching of the Bible on Motherhood. It’s important to God. He created the role.