The King's Woman: Beautiful and Dangerous

We men like abstracts. Here it is: Would you like to marry a headless woman? A corpse running around with flapping arms? Carrying her own dismounted head under her arm? I don’t think so! This sounds more like a scene from a horror movie than a romance movie. But be assured: God shares your distaste. He has this thing, this amazing love and passion for the headless girl, knowing that he himself is her Head, and she is his Body. That is how it is supposed to be. Essentially, God is all out to marry her and make her the King’s Woman. But she has been a truly difficult character, throwing herself at anyone but him. The woman God is after is a collective being, a multi-individual made up of many individuals like you and me. Through her own rebellion and pathological disobedience and by severing the one crucial connection to her very own Head and King, Israel and “The Church” became that headless Bride.Across a time span of now many thousands of years, with the whole world watching, God has tried it all to pursue his girl. He knew all the tricks in the book. He has not left a single stone unturned to demonstrate his endless passion for her, to win her love and respect: wooing, proposal, engagement, building a house for her, preparing a country, driving out any enemies, offering marriage, even trying the carrot and stick approach. His arms are still open. God’s house, the Kingdom of God, is all ready and decorated for her. The wedding preparations alone would make everyone giddy with excitement, as this is the love story of the universe. There are signs that this long story is finally about to unfold. And it will unfold, with us or without us. But better with us.We are all wrapped up in this, including us men. Because even if we are as manly as it comes, we still are called to be part of a woman — that collective, amazing being called the Bride of Christ. So even if you are a he, you are still very much part of a she. That does not mean we men now have to learn to walk in high heels, but it means we need to wrap our minds around the idea that all our man-stuff — competition, protection, fights, wars, that mix between petrol, testosterone, adrenalin, and beer that flows in our veins — ultimately gets us to become part of the Bride to the ultimate Husband.In this book The King's Woman, Mercy Simson invites all of us with a fresh and clear voice to God's Kingdom alternative, to a traditional religion, which is boring for men, tiring for women, repellant to the young and frustrating to God.Excited to know more? Go ahead and read it. Read more