Year 5, Day 346: Song of Songs 4

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Discipleship Focus: Identity

• Identity: Our true identity comes from the Father.  Only when our identity comes from God can we be obedient in ways that satisfy our person to our core.

This is a great chapter of identity, although we’re going to come at it from a different perspective.  However we slice it, though, our identity still needs to come from God.  Our identity still needs to be rooted in Him and how He’s created us to be.

When we look at this chapter, we get two perspectives on identity.  First of all, this bride is clearly loved by Solomon.  Solomon cannot stop praising the things that are easily praised.  She is physically attractive.  She is healthy.  She is the kind of woman for whom he is looking to raise his family.  God has created this bride to be an attractive candidate for marriage.

However, there is more to this woman’s identity than her physical beauty.  She has protection and nourishment.  She has compassion and caring.  She has wisdom and intellect.  She has an identity of not just a pretty woman but an intelligent woman as well.  Here is a woman who can live out her identity that God has given to her.

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