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SESSION 7 : Song of Songs Chapter 2:11-17; 3:1-5

experiential knowledge of the One who is worthy—and of our

inheritance, authority, and standing in Him.

Notice, however, that this is a stairway, similar to the one Jacob saw in

his dream in Genesis 28:12–14. In this passage, the Lord Himself is
standing at the top, and from there He begins to speak to Jacob about

the promise of his inheritance. However, we need to understand that a

stairway has steps, which indicate that we do not access the top
immediately, but rather ascend step by step. In fact, before Jacob, the

Shulamite, and indeed ourselves ascend into our full inheritance, there
will be many stairs to be climbed and many trials to undergo—as we

see from the examples of Jacob’s walk, Joseph’s walk, and King
David’s walk with the Lord.

As the Shulamite is being called higher, there will be a greater

responsibility on her part, and this means that the focus now must
change—from being all about her and her times of happiness and

pleasure in His presence to what pleases Him. She is being called to
worship and bless her King by entering into a new level of surrender,

and those compromises that are thwarting the purity and beauty of their

relationship now have to be faced and dealt with.

Verse 15 of Song of Songs is such a challenge for all of God’s people

who are serious about going deep with Him:

“You must catch the troubling foxes, those sly little foxes that hinder

our relationship. For they raid our budding vineyard of love to ruin

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