Two months of silence from the one who has wronged you, and still no stirring, no remorse, no willingness to make right what has been done. This is a heavy trial, and it would be easy to let the heart grow bitter. Yet consider: the landlord’s conscience, if awakened only by threat or only to escape trouble, would be no true repentance. The repentance which is the work of the Spirit of God and which God accepts gives God glory. A carnal repentance, a mere regret for consequences, is not that holy, heavenly sorrow which flows from a renewed heart. So your prayer must rise higher: not merely that he pay compensation to quiet your suffering, but that the Holy Spirit would grant him repentance unto life, wherein he would own his sin against you and against God, and seek to restore what he has taken.
You ask for justice, and rightly so, for the body racked with illness, the skin plagued, the cost of treatment, the indignity of threats. But let your soul take hold of this: the house in which you dwell has God for its Landlord. The earthly landlord may refuse to answer, but the Great Landlord above sees all. Every lease of earthly comfort holds this clause: that the Owner has at all times the right to enter and to test His own property. What if this silent suffering is His own visitation? Not to drive you to despair, but to lead you to a deeper trust. The goodness of God leads you to repentance, not by the whip, but by the drawing of His patient love. Do not measure His faithfulness by the landlord’s hardness. If you have cried for two months, remember that Christ’s own suffering was not deserved, yet He drank the cup without rebellion. He was perfected through suffering, and so your sorrow, placed in His hands, can chisel away self-reliance and carve a greater dependence on Him.
Look now to yourself, for the trial is also a mirror. Does your own repentance toward God spring from love to Christ, or is it a fleeting sorrow that leaves the sin untouched? True repentance pulls down the old and builds up the new; it lasts and bears fruit. And as you wait, do not let the landlord’s unyielding heart become a stone in your own bosom. Pray still that his conscience be stirred, not to a repentance that needs to be repented of, but to a godly sorrow that makes restitution for the glory of God. If he remains unmoved, yet God is not mocked. What is left unpaid in time will be required in eternity. But for you, the sweetest portion is not the compensation, but the knowledge that you are known and kept by the Landlord who will never cast you out. Go now, and let your prayer be mingled with tears of hope, not of vengeance. Seek the Lord’s own compensation: a fuller sight of Christ, who was made perfect through suffering, and who ever lives to plead your cause.
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. 
