The Love Life of the Lord AB Simpson 9781497435063 Books
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A.B. Smith was a Canadian Evangelical who preached around the globe and wrote important words such as " A Larger Christian Life" and "The Gospel of Healing".
The Love Life of the Lord AB Simpson 9781497435063 Books
The Love Life of the Lord is a tiny book full of tiny pages. But it contains much of what the subtitle promises, The Deeper Lessons in the Book of Canticles. Here is how it starts, “From many standpoints the Bible looks at our spiritual life. Sometimes it is as a life of faith, again as a life of holiness, evermore as a life of service, deepest of all as a life of patience and victorious suffering; but the highest and divinest view of it is a life of love.” Thirty-three pages are given to introduce the exposition. In it biblical love scenes and parables of love are highlighted. The historical context is touched upon. The various divisions, Waiting Days, Wooing Days, Wedding Days, Testing Days, Home Longing, Home Coming—are laid out and summarized. And the three traditional applications of the allegory, to Israel, to the Church, and to the individual Christian—are explained and ranked. This groundwork lends considerable meaning and significance to an overall small design.The message of Solomon’s Song is communicated with ease and smoothness. Illustrations come just in time to save the message from stodginess. Poetry is incorporated to move and persuade. Observations bear the mark of meditation and research. The whole thing is smart, neat, artful, and religious. That is a general assessment of ability. A. B. Simpson (1843-1919) was an able man.
His extrapolations bring average Christianity into view, giving cause for reflection. “The ordinary Christian has figs, but they are winter figs. They are green and sour. He does something for God and has many a good feeling, but there is no perfume about it…Many Christians have fruit, but they have no fragrance. There is much value in their lives, but there is no attractiveness.” Succinct observations tell us why this is so and how to become fragrant: “Very blessed it is to open immediately when He knocketh, but blessed is it also to knock until He opens.” Again, ”Is our life repeating itself, not by hard effort, but by spontaneous and springing life?” Again, “She [the spouse] did not wish to be sweet that others might see her sweetness, but that He might be satisfied.” One more, “We may bring much to Christ as a substitute for love but all is lost.” When a spirit of praise knocks prayer down to second place, that is a sign we are entering the consecrated life we are called to.
His thoughts on knowing Christ seem to be based on experience. “He has this for us, His exclusive love, a love which each individual somehow feels is all for himself, in which he can lie alone upon His breast and have a place which none other can dispute.” It is told in a biography that Mr. Simpson came to know the Lord most profoundly through great trials and much darkness. This is reflected, I think, in his remarks: “It is usually out of the deep, dark, lonely place of trial that we come into our deepest intimacy with Jesus and know the fullness of His love.” I can second that. “We must cease from our own activity and we must be willing to go into the shadow, lost to the sight of ourselves, lost to the sight of others, overshadowed by what they might call gloom…seeing nothing but the shadow of our Beloved which hides everything else, even the light of our way, from our view.” It is because of his bouts of ‘desertion,’ maybe, that Simpson can spot a sin even in being close to Jesus Christ. “I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me” (Song of Solomon 7.10.) Watch what he does with this text. “It is not now, ‘My beloved is mine.’ The selfishness even of her love is gone, and her one thought is to be his and to meet his every wish for her.”
Simpson urges Christians to seek the ‘full witness of His Spirit’ by confessing love to Jesus. “Beloved, let Him hear your voice.” It is no surprise that the Holy Spirit is regarded so highly by Simpson in our walk with Jesus. The much-maligned Spirit-baptism was very conspicuous in the life of this man. Spiritual intimacy is maintained by being careful not to grieve the Holy Ghost. “A hint is enough to repel a sensitive heart…Let us take heed how we chill His overtures and appeals by even a qualified refusal.” The place of the Holy Spirit in our love for Jesus is well noticed in the text, as well as lifted and applied.
Trials and their solutions are well identified and elucidated. “There is no trial more deep and keen to a devout spirit than the loss of the Lord’s presence.” The solution to the soul’s ‘desertion’ is not, “Oh, you are just a little melancholy, and sentimental, and nervous. All you want is a little fresh air.” Beware of advice like that. “Often the unwise teacher will tempt the soul to abandon its notion of sanctification, to give the whole thing up as a delusion and come down to the ordinary plane of Christian life, and treat its former experiences as a mistake.” Real solutions are vital since “there is no time that Satan and the world tempt the heart so persuasively as when it has lost the joy of the Lord.” What did the daughter of Shulem do? “First, she continued seeking; she did not…fall asleep in languid indifference, but the moment she found out her mistake she endeavored to correct it, and continued to search for her Lord until she found Him.” We must persevere. “So, beloved, even if you have lost the joy of your Lord, you can still retain the singleness of your purpose, the loyalty of your love, and cry.”
Simpson’s final thoughts on the future are beautiful and profound. Because of how he applies the truth he believes, no one should mind if these thoughts reflect his eschatological view so candidly, which seems to be pre-millennial. “Beloved, we are coming back again over this green earth and the path we are treading now. Let us leave no foot-prints which we would not care to retrace in company with our Lord.” He is not as fluent and expressive as Octavius Winslow. But he is gifted enough. I think that sometimes his imagination gets him away from what certainly can be known about the future. But there is no danger, and a lot of reason, to meditate on the Lord by the help of this little jewel, and to do so more than once.
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The Love Life of the Lord AB Simpson 9781497435063 Books Reviews
The Love Life of the Lord is a tiny book full of tiny pages. But it contains much of what the subtitle promises, The Deeper Lessons in the Book of Canticles. Here is how it starts, “From many standpoints the Bible looks at our spiritual life. Sometimes it is as a life of faith, again as a life of holiness, evermore as a life of service, deepest of all as a life of patience and victorious suffering; but the highest and divinest view of it is a life of love.” Thirty-three pages are given to introduce the exposition. In it biblical love scenes and parables of love are highlighted. The historical context is touched upon. The various divisions, Waiting Days, Wooing Days, Wedding Days, Testing Days, Home Longing, Home Coming—are laid out and summarized. And the three traditional applications of the allegory, to Israel, to the Church, and to the individual Christian—are explained and ranked. This groundwork lends considerable meaning and significance to an overall small design.
The message of Solomon’s Song is communicated with ease and smoothness. Illustrations come just in time to save the message from stodginess. Poetry is incorporated to move and persuade. Observations bear the mark of meditation and research. The whole thing is smart, neat, artful, and religious. That is a general assessment of ability. A. B. Simpson (1843-1919) was an able man.
His extrapolations bring average Christianity into view, giving cause for reflection. “The ordinary Christian has figs, but they are winter figs. They are green and sour. He does something for God and has many a good feeling, but there is no perfume about it…Many Christians have fruit, but they have no fragrance. There is much value in their lives, but there is no attractiveness.” Succinct observations tell us why this is so and how to become fragrant “Very blessed it is to open immediately when He knocketh, but blessed is it also to knock until He opens.” Again, ”Is our life repeating itself, not by hard effort, but by spontaneous and springing life?” Again, “She [the spouse] did not wish to be sweet that others might see her sweetness, but that He might be satisfied.” One more, “We may bring much to Christ as a substitute for love but all is lost.” When a spirit of praise knocks prayer down to second place, that is a sign we are entering the consecrated life we are called to.
His thoughts on knowing Christ seem to be based on experience. “He has this for us, His exclusive love, a love which each individual somehow feels is all for himself, in which he can lie alone upon His breast and have a place which none other can dispute.” It is told in a biography that Mr. Simpson came to know the Lord most profoundly through great trials and much darkness. This is reflected, I think, in his remarks “It is usually out of the deep, dark, lonely place of trial that we come into our deepest intimacy with Jesus and know the fullness of His love.” I can second that. “We must cease from our own activity and we must be willing to go into the shadow, lost to the sight of ourselves, lost to the sight of others, overshadowed by what they might call gloom…seeing nothing but the shadow of our Beloved which hides everything else, even the light of our way, from our view.” It is because of his bouts of ‘desertion,’ maybe, that Simpson can spot a sin even in being close to Jesus Christ. “I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me” (Song of Solomon 7.10.) Watch what he does with this text. “It is not now, ‘My beloved is mine.’ The selfishness even of her love is gone, and her one thought is to be his and to meet his every wish for her.”
Simpson urges Christians to seek the ‘full witness of His Spirit’ by confessing love to Jesus. “Beloved, let Him hear your voice.” It is no surprise that the Holy Spirit is regarded so highly by Simpson in our walk with Jesus. The much-maligned Spirit-baptism was very conspicuous in the life of this man. Spiritual intimacy is maintained by being careful not to grieve the Holy Ghost. “A hint is enough to repel a sensitive heart…Let us take heed how we chill His overtures and appeals by even a qualified refusal.” The place of the Holy Spirit in our love for Jesus is well noticed in the text, as well as lifted and applied.
Trials and their solutions are well identified and elucidated. “There is no trial more deep and keen to a devout spirit than the loss of the Lord’s presence.” The solution to the soul’s ‘desertion’ is not, “Oh, you are just a little melancholy, and sentimental, and nervous. All you want is a little fresh air.” Beware of advice like that. “Often the unwise teacher will tempt the soul to abandon its notion of sanctification, to give the whole thing up as a delusion and come down to the ordinary plane of Christian life, and treat its former experiences as a mistake.” Real solutions are vital since “there is no time that Satan and the world tempt the heart so persuasively as when it has lost the joy of the Lord.” What did the daughter of Shulem do? “First, she continued seeking; she did not…fall asleep in languid indifference, but the moment she found out her mistake she endeavored to correct it, and continued to search for her Lord until she found Him.” We must persevere. “So, beloved, even if you have lost the joy of your Lord, you can still retain the singleness of your purpose, the loyalty of your love, and cry.”
Simpson’s final thoughts on the future are beautiful and profound. Because of how he applies the truth he believes, no one should mind if these thoughts reflect his eschatological view so candidly, which seems to be pre-millennial. “Beloved, we are coming back again over this green earth and the path we are treading now. Let us leave no foot-prints which we would not care to retrace in company with our Lord.” He is not as fluent and expressive as Octavius Winslow. But he is gifted enough. I think that sometimes his imagination gets him away from what certainly can be known about the future. But there is no danger, and a lot of reason, to meditate on the Lord by the help of this little jewel, and to do so more than once.
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