God inaugurates and maintains this new covenant with Adam by speaking to him, and Adam is encouraged to find blessing and life in obedience to his gracious covenant Lord by thankfully eating from the Tree of Life, confessing his dependence on God’s grace, but dutifully avoiding the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil for a time.3 Finally, God graciously provides for the succession of the covenant by making a wife for Adam. God and Adam are in covenant with one another. We call this “the creation covenant” or “the covenant of life. “4
