Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Thursday October 12, 2017 |
Evening Time: 2:41 PM PST
"The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost." --John 14:26
This age is peculiarly the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, in which Jesus
cheers us, not by His personal presence, as He shall do by-and-by, but by the
indwelling and constant abiding of the Holy Ghost, who is evermore the Comforter
of the church. It is His office to console the hearts of God's people. He
convinces of sin; He illuminates and instructs; but still the main part of His
work lies in making glad the hearts of the renewed, in confirming the weak, and
lifting up all those that be bowed down. He does this by revealing Jesus to
them. The Holy Spirit consoles, but Christ is the consolation. If we may
use the figure, the Holy Spirit is the Physician, but Jesus is the medicine.
He heals the wound, but it is by applying the holy ointment of Christ's
name and grace. He takes not of His own things, but of the things of Christ. So
if we give to the Holy Spirit the Greek name of Paraclete, as we
sometimes do, then our heart confers on our blessed Lord Jesus the title of
Paraclesis. If the one be the Comforter, the other is the Comfort. Now,
with such rich provision for his need, why should the Christian be sad and
desponding? The Holy Spirit has graciously engaged to be thy Comforter: dost
thou imagine, O thou weak and trembling believer, that He will be negligent of
His sacred trust? Canst thou suppose that He has undertaken what He cannot or
will not perform? If it be His especial work to strengthen thee, and to comfort
thee, dost thou suppose He has forgotten His business, or that He will fail in
the loving office which He sustains towards thee? Nay, think not so hardly of
the tender and blessed Spirit whose name is "the Comforter." He delights to give
the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of
heaviness. Trust thou in Him, and He will surely comfort thee till the house of
mourning is closed for ever, and the marriage feast has begun.
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