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The Holy Spirit A Comforter

By Octavius Winslow (1808 – 1878)

    There is a painful forgetfulness among many of the saints of God, of the appointed path of believers through the world.  It is forgotten that that path is to be one of tribulation; that, so far from being a smooth, a flowery, and an easy path, it is rough, thorny, and difficult.  The believer often expects all his heaven on earth.  He forgets that, whatever spiritual enjoyment there may be here, the present is but the wilderness state of the church, and the life that now is, is but that of a pilgrimage and a sojourning.  Kind was our Lord’s admonition, “In the world ye shall have tribulation” (John 16:33); and equally so that of the apostle, “We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom” (Acts 14:22).  Affliction, in some of its many and varied forms, is the allotment of all the Lord’s people.  If we have it not, we lack the evidence of our true sonship, for the Father “scourgeth every son whom He receiveth” (Heb. 12:6).  But whatever the trial or affliction is, the Spirit is the Comforter (John 14:26).  And how does He comfort the afflicted soul?

Revelation of God’s Love

    He unfolds the love of his God and Father in the trial.  He shows the believer that his sorrow, so far from being the result of anger, is the fruit of love; that it comes from the heart of God sent to draw the soul nearer to Himself, and to unfold the depths of His own grace and tenderness; that “whom [He] loveth He chasteneth” (Heb. 12:6).  And oh, how immense the comfort that flows into a wounded spirit, when love – deep, unchangeable, covenant love – is seen in the hand that has stricken; when the affliction is traced to the covenant, and through the covenant, to the heart of a covenant God. MORE

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