A Bed Quilt - a Story by F.E. Marsh

 

"He shall give you another Comforter" {John 14:16), 

 

A poor woman, who was not able to get out to a Church service as she was wont, sent her little boy with the instruction that he was to bring home as much of the sermon as he could. When the boy got home he had forgotten all he had heard. 

"Well, do you remember the text ?" queried the mother. 

"Yes," the text was, "God says, He is going to send us another bed quilt." 

An additional bed quilt was sorely needed, for the only one the mother had was worn and thin, and it was not sufficient to keep her and the boy warm. The mother could not remember such a text as the boy mentioned, so she asked one who was present at the service what the text was, and she replied, "I will send you another Comforter." The boy knew the bed quilt was a comforter to him when he was cold, so he concluded the Comforter was a bed quilt. 

What a number of believers there are who need this bed quilt, namely, the comfort of the Comforter. They are cold because He does not possess them in power. 

He is

 (l) The Friend to counsel us by the Truth (John 16:13).

(2) The Fulness to supply the deficiencies in our spiritual character (Eph. 5:18). 

(3) The Fruit to make us correspond to His nature (Galatians 5:22). 

(4) The Fibre to knit us in love with all God's saints (1 Cor. 12:12, 13). 

(5)  The Fire to purify, vivify, and cleanse all our being (Acts 11:24). 

(6)  The Fervour to inspire us in love and zeal in God's service (Acts 6:8-10). 

(7) And the Fuel to feed our spiritual life to its strength and progress (John 6:63). 

The Holy Spirit witnesses in us by an uncondemning heart before the Lord, and He witnesses to us by the assuring statements in His Word.