A Mother’s Day Verse You Might Not Expect!
“And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women will be saved through childbearing…” (1 Timothy 2:14-15)
I bet you have never heard that verse used in celebration of Mother’s Day. What does that verse mean? Does it mean that men get saved by grace through faith, but woman get saved by having babies? Of course not! So what does it mean?
Here’s my take. A woman (Eve) was deceived in the Garden. Adam sinned knowingly (which makes his sin even worse), but the promise was made that a descendant who would come through the woman who would be the Savior. Indeed, Eve’s descendant, born through Mary, was the long anticipated Messiah—Jesus. So in whatever way Eve brought reproach on women by being deceived and the first to sin, through Eve’s great, great, great, great… grandson—Mary’s child, Jesus—salvation came. Thus any reproach was removed and women (along with all humanity) were “saved through childbearing.”
What a noble thing to be a mom. Happy Mother’s Day!