We might very naturally draw from the word “Comforter” that the term was in relation to sorrow, that it intimated a person who would console us in the midst of the distresses of this lower world. And, indeed, the Holy Spirit does console us and comfort us. But this is only a very small part of the functions conveyed by this word. It is One who is identified with our interests, one who undertakes all our cause, one who engages to see us through our difficulties, one who in every way becomes both our representative and the great personal agent who transacts all our business for us. It is One who is absolutely and infinitely competent to undertake for us whatever He could do in our favor, whatever was or might be the limit of our need, whatever our want in any difficulty, whatever the exigencies of God’s grace for the blessing of our souls. Such the Holy Spirit is now, and how blessed it is to have such a One.
Adapted from W. Kelly