Hinds Feet Study May 25 Study Guide for Monday June 8

We will try to get through chapters 16 and 17 this week, 18 and 19 the next week, 20 and a wrap up time the week after that. Please pray for my health as we finish this series of studies. Here are the study guide questions for this week. It appears that there are a lot of questions, but they do flow together. I feel these two chapters belong together in a study so try to finish both chapters. Chapter 17 is not a long chapter. There will be more "summary" questions than specific questions this week - so as you answer, see how the answers flow together.

1. How would you have responded to the "grave-like gorge" had you been M.A.? Have you ever felt you have encountered such a thing in your life?
2. What is different about M.A.'s response to leaping down into the canyon? Why do you think Hurnard chose to use the word "leap"?
3. What did you make of being told this was the last time M.A. would hold on to the hands of her companions S & S?
4. How did they help her? Why do you think that would be true? Is that true for you?
5. Have you had times in your life when you have felt that no Shepherd came to your side, when you have had no answers? How did you respond?
6. The words of Bitterness come to M.A.'s mind. How does M.A. view them?
7. What does the concept that M.A.'s enemies can never cast themselves down into the grave in which M.A. finds herself mean to you?
8. Reflect on M.A.'s inability to tear out the natural human love and desire that grow in her heart.
9. Why can S&S no longer help her?
10. Would you be willing to be bound the the altar as M.A. requested?
11. How does Scripture help M.A. at this point?
12. Does M.A. seem to feel any pain?
13. Reflect on the comment "the time had come."
14. What did you think of the statement "nothing but ashes remained either of the love itself which had been so deeply planted in her heart or of the sorrow and suffering which had been her companions.
15. Reflect on her statement "It is finished."

Chapter 17

1. M.A. wakes in a cave - how is the world different for her now as she looks out?
2. Though M.A. is completely alone, how does she feel?
3. What irresistibly draws M.A.? What does she do?
4. How does she seem to respond to having all her blemishes removed?
5. How is her life different now?
6. Is M.A. living in past memories, fears or dreams of the future, or in the present moment? What can we learn from this?