...............quick outline
Next up, a very brief outline of the book. Basically, we have the story of a woman who moves from self-focused immaturity to God-focused maturity as she receives new revelations about who God is and how he sees her, experiences a few crises along the way, sees her own weakness, rejects God, gets loved up by God, helps others, gets rejected by others, gets loved up by God again, things most of us can relate to at some point in our lives. Interestingly, Mike Bickle reckons at any point of our lives as christians, we can place ourselves somewhere in the book.
Her growth in maturity is marked by four key verses:
“My lover is to me...” (ch1:13,14) – here she's only interested in her own spiritual pleasure
“My beloved is mine and I am his” (ch2:16) – she starts to see that she belongs to him, though she's still primarily focused on what she gets from him
“I am my lover's and he is mine” (ch6:3) – she says the same thing as in ch2:16, but now the order has changed. What she gets from him is still important, but is now secondary to his inheritance in her.
“I belong to my lover and his desire is for me” (ch7:10) – what he wants is all she cares about; she knows she belongs to him entirely.
Her growth in maturity is marked by four key verses:
“My lover is to me...” (ch1:13,14) – here she's only interested in her own spiritual pleasure
“My beloved is mine and I am his” (ch2:16) – she starts to see that she belongs to him, though she's still primarily focused on what she gets from him
“I am my lover's and he is mine” (ch6:3) – she says the same thing as in ch2:16, but now the order has changed. What she gets from him is still important, but is now secondary to his inheritance in her.
“I belong to my lover and his desire is for me” (ch7:10) – what he wants is all she cares about; she knows she belongs to him entirely.
