Woman's Desire for Her Husband
It seems that I have often thought that when it says in Genesis 3:36;
"To the woman He said,
I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth,
in pain you will bring forth children;
Yet your desire wil be fore your husband,
and He will rule over You."
The first part was indeed a "punishment" for her actions but the second part was not so much a dealt out punishment but simply part of her separation from God Himself. For God Himself had been her source of life, her source of everything she needed, from physical needs (food, did not need clothing because there was no shame), to emotional needs (he was everything she needed, and she had a perfect relationship with her husband because of their union with God), and spiritual needs. All three types of needs did exist within humans at the time, but when one is united with God, His soul or Spirit with our soul or spirit, all our needs are met, especially before falling. So her desire for her husband was just part of the loss of the connection with God, not a "punishment" within itself. It can be seen as a punishment who desire closeness with God, but it was not given to her by God, she gave it to herself by separating herself from Him.
(Journal Entry 3.1.05)
Before men walked away or choose themselves to be god's, there was unity within all things. The man and the woman were one in a way we have not experienced, without the shame that we now have and feel. But the souls were also being "fed" or given what they needed from God. God did not "punish" her in that statement "and yet your desire will be for your husband." She punished herself by alienating herself from God. Which in that union she would have received all the emotional, spiritual and physical needs she had. But now that she was alienated from God, from the union of their spirits. That desire God had once met now only has man to fulfill, because he is the other part of God's image. her desire was always there, even before the fall, yet it was being met completely by the one who was intended to meet that need, God alone.
This is not to say she has no desire for her husband before, it is to say that the desire (drawing to God) could no longer be met because of the space between her soul & God & she would now cling to anything with masculinity or love in it. Since man possesses part of the full image of God, the aprt that she does not have, the need/desire to fill that is what draws her to the man, but what she truly needs is what she had in the beginning, the perfect union of both, her man being hismelf and God being Himself within and around both the male and the female.
"To the woman He said,
I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth,
in pain you will bring forth children;
Yet your desire wil be fore your husband,
and He will rule over You."
The first part was indeed a "punishment" for her actions but the second part was not so much a dealt out punishment but simply part of her separation from God Himself. For God Himself had been her source of life, her source of everything she needed, from physical needs (food, did not need clothing because there was no shame), to emotional needs (he was everything she needed, and she had a perfect relationship with her husband because of their union with God), and spiritual needs. All three types of needs did exist within humans at the time, but when one is united with God, His soul or Spirit with our soul or spirit, all our needs are met, especially before falling. So her desire for her husband was just part of the loss of the connection with God, not a "punishment" within itself. It can be seen as a punishment who desire closeness with God, but it was not given to her by God, she gave it to herself by separating herself from Him.
(Journal Entry 3.1.05)
Before men walked away or choose themselves to be god's, there was unity within all things. The man and the woman were one in a way we have not experienced, without the shame that we now have and feel. But the souls were also being "fed" or given what they needed from God. God did not "punish" her in that statement "and yet your desire will be for your husband." She punished herself by alienating herself from God. Which in that union she would have received all the emotional, spiritual and physical needs she had. But now that she was alienated from God, from the union of their spirits. That desire God had once met now only has man to fulfill, because he is the other part of God's image. her desire was always there, even before the fall, yet it was being met completely by the one who was intended to meet that need, God alone.
This is not to say she has no desire for her husband before, it is to say that the desire (drawing to God) could no longer be met because of the space between her soul & God & she would now cling to anything with masculinity or love in it. Since man possesses part of the full image of God, the aprt that she does not have, the need/desire to fill that is what draws her to the man, but what she truly needs is what she had in the beginning, the perfect union of both, her man being hismelf and God being Himself within and around both the male and the female.
posted by Ryan at 7:02 AM
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