Your prayers have not been unheard, nor has God’s eye been shut to your distress. But see in this delay a lesson of great value. When we suffer unjustly and yet do not blaspheme, when we give thanks in the very midst of anguish, we offer to God a most acceptable sacrifice. For as I have often taught, to bless the Lord in prosperity is a small thing; nature herself urges it. But when in extremities we still give thanks, then it is philosophy indeed. This brightness of conscience, this refusing to be embittered, is no small comfort, and it even has power to shame the wicked. For while the angry soul fuels the devil’s schemes, the grateful soul drives him away and draws God near.
Think of Pharaoh. God endured him with much long-suffering, giving him opportunity after opportunity to repent. Yet he remained hard-hearted, a vessel fit for destruction by his own doing. If your landlord continues without remorse, his conscience is not asleep. No, it plucks at him, but he pretends not to know, lest he be tortured by fear. The stench of unrepented wrong rises, and God’s patience delays judgment only to call him to amendment. Do not suppose that his silence means peace. The tribunal of conscience supplies its own lash, and when God’s long-suffering ends, it will speak in terrors.
Yet for yourself, be not troubled at the lack of visible recompense. The Apostle glories in the testimony of a pure conscience, not in earthly settlements. If you have not met wrong with wrong, if you have not returned curses, you have already a consolation greater than any sum of money. And remember Esau: he sought repentance with tears but found no place for it, because his grief was not true change. He still plotted murder in his heart. So too, forced apologies that come without inward transformation are empty. Pray rather that your landlord’s heart be changed, not merely his actions, and leave the reckoning to God. For He who said, “Vengeance is mine,” will not forget the electric shock that harmed your body nor the distress that troubled your soul. But He may allow delay that you both might learn something higher: you, to trust without seeing; he, to fear and repent before the day of account.
Therefore, give thanks for this trial, for it is a furnace to purify your faith. Complain not, lest you lose the profit of suffering. Continue to pray, not with bitterness but with the meekness that hopes still, “if peradventure God give them repentance.” And rest in this: neither skin ailment nor shower expense is hidden from Him who counts every tear. The compensation you seek may yet come, or it may be replaced by a far weightier reward. In either case, your holiness shines brighter than any earthly justice, and your patience will not go unhonored.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
