Grieve not His tender compassion

Because the Holy Spirit is a person He has a personality and there's the ability to have emotions.

"He does the things that PEOPLE do. He intercedes, He gives testimony, He bears witness, He teaches and He’s a person outside of the Father and the Son. He’s a person but He’s also a distinct member of the godhead.

I Corinthians 2: [9] But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

[10] But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

“The Spirit of God has knowledge, the ability to search knowledge, the ability to teach and reveal knowledge. By the way, He can SPEAK when He reveals the knowledge. Revelation 2 talks about the words that the Spirit spoke unto them. Galatians 4:6 says, ‘And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.’

“It’s that spirit of sonship, but He SPEAKS. In Romans 8 we read that He makes ‘intercession for the saints.’ In verse 34, you see the Lord Jesus Christ at the right hand of God making intercession. The same characteristics that are identified as true of Jesus are identified as true of the Holy Spirit.

“Romans 15:30 says, ‘Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me.’

“Notice there are some things the Spirit loves; He has the capacity to love things. That’s why He can be grieved."

Ephesians 4:30: [30] And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

In his sermon on this verse given in 1859 at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens, Charles Spurgeon said, "There may be the bitterness of myrrh, but there is all the sweetness of frankincense in this sweet term 'to grieve.' I am certain, my hearers, I do not flatter you when I declare, that I am sure that the most of you would grieve, if you thought you were grieving anyone else.

"You, perhaps, would not care much if you had made any one angry without a cause; but to grieve him, even though it were without a cause and without intention, would nevertheless cause you distress of heart, and you would not rest until this grief had subsided, till you had made some explanation or apology, and had done your best to allay the smart and take away the grief.

"When we see anger in another, we at once begin to feel hostility. Anger begets anger; but grief begets pity, and pity is next akin to love; and we love those whom we have caused to grieve . . .

"Is it not, I say a tender and touching thing, that the Holy Spirit should direct his servant Paul to say to us 'grieve not the Holy Spirit,' do not excite his loving anger, do not vex him, do not cause him to mourn? He is a dove; do not cause him to mourn, because you have treated him harshly and ungratefully.

"The few words I have to say UPON THE LOVE OF THE SPIRIT will all be pressing forward to my great mark, stirring you up not to grieve the Spirit; for when we are persuaded that another loves us, we find at once a very potent reason why we should not grieve him . . .

"Furthermore, my brethren, forget not how much we owe to the Spirit's consolation, how much has he manifested his love to you in cherishing you in all your sicknesses, assisting you in all your labors; and comforting you in all your distresses.

"He has been a blessed comforter to me I can testify; when every other comfort failed, when the promise itself seemed empty, when the ministry was void of power, it is then the Holy Spirit has proved a rich comfort unto my soul, and filled my poor heart with peace and joy in believing.

"How many times would your heart have broken if the Spirit had not bound it up?! How often has he who is your teacher become also your physician, has closed the wounds of your poor bleeding spirit, and has bound up those wounds with the court plaister of the promise, and so has stanched the bleeding, and has given you back your spiritual health once more? . . . 

"Nay, not only doth he help our infirmities, but when we know not what to pray for as we ought he teacheth us how to pray, and when 'we ourselves groan within ourselves,' then the Spirit himself maketh intersession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered . . .

"To help our infirmities is a mighty instance of love. When God overcomes infirmity altogether, or removes it, there is something very noble, and grand, and sublime in the deed; when he permits the infirmity to remain and yet works with the infirmity, this is tender compassion indeed."