Maybe we’ve been looking at her story wrong.

I think Eve gets a bad reputation.

Mention her name, and almost everyone immediately thinks, the woman who ate the fruit.

Honestly, that’s how I thought about her for a long time too.

But this week, as I started reading her story again, I realized I had spent years focusing on one decision instead of the whole person.

Before Eve was the woman who sinned…

She was the first woman God ever created.

The first wife.

The first person to walk with God in a world that wasn’t broken.

Can you even imagine that?

No fear.

No anxiety.

No shame.

No comparison.

No wondering if you were enough.

Just complete fellowship with God.

Then one conversation changed everything.

One thing that stood out to me this time wasn’t even the fruit.

It was the question.

“Did God really say…?”

That hit me.

Because isn’t that still where so many of our struggles begin?

Not with some huge, life-changing decision.

But with doubt.

Did God really say He’ll provide?

Did God really forgive me?

Did He really call me?

Does He really have something better?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve asked every one of those questions at some point.

The enemy hasn’t changed his strategy much.

He still gets us questioning God’s character before he gets us questioning our choices.

Another thing I noticed…

As soon as Adam and Eve sinned, they hid.

I think that’s what shame always wants us to do.

Hide.

Pretend.

Cover ourselves.

Distance ourselves from God.

But God didn’t leave them hiding.

He went looking for them.

Not because He didn’t know where they were.

Because He wanted them to come out of hiding.

That says so much about His heart.

Even in the middle of consequences, He pursued them.

And then something else caught my attention.

Before they ever left the garden…

God covered them.

I’ve read that story so many times, but I don’t think I’d ever really stopped there before.

Grace was already showing up.

Right there in Genesis.

Long before the cross.

Long before Bethlehem.

Long before we deserved it.

Maybe that’s what I want to remember most from Eve’s story.

She’s not just the woman who introduced sin.

She’s part of the story where God first revealed His plan to rescue us.

That changes the way I read Genesis.

And honestly…

It changes the way I see myself too.

Because if God was already pursuing people in Genesis 3…

Maybe He’s been pursuing me all along, too.